A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand; Left on the shore; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Wandering waters unto wandering waters call; Let them clash together, foam and fall.
Many an evening by the waters did we watch the stately ships, And our spirits rush'd together at the touching of the lips.
All about a summer ocean, leagues on leagues of golden calm, And within melodious waters rolling round the knolls of palm.
I saw nothing but the waters wap and the waves wan.
Or here of waters falling high up on mountains:-- Their thousand wreaths of dangling water-smoke.
And there in that tree, on the brink of the heedless, rushing waters which crossed the highroad to Dieppe was going to be fought out one of the most desperate battles of the whole war.
He felt that it was cowardly to defile the watersof a brook.
Presently the light would flicker upon those black, mad waters and laugh at Tom from the other side.
For it is noteworthy that most of these highland villages cluster along the river courses, as though the hill-folk were fain to have the sound of the glad watersin their ears.
In this land of manywaters every male creature seems to be a disciple of Sir Isaak Walton.
For thy action thou wilt indeed receive the reward of the One Worthy of Praise, and drink of the waters of Al Cawthar, which are sweeter than honey, whiter than milk, and cooler than the snow.
Thou who hast enjoyed the pleasures of the Garden of Delights among the Companions of the Right Hand, and hast tasted the sweet waters of Salsabil, knowest the Secret of the Crescent.
From the waters of the Tsad, even unto the green slopes of the Atlas, we hold power supreme, and none dare withstand us, for we are feared alike by the Roumis of Algeria and the True Believers of the Desert.
Can the waters of the Danube have acquired the property of the river Lethe?
With cries of despair they were engulfed in the waters of the lake.
Scarcely had he come clear of his debts when his pen fell from his hand, and, in the bright, sunny dining room of Abbotsford, he dropped wearily to sleep, with the waters of his beloved Tweed murmuring musically in his ears.
From hence you look over a handsome balustrade into a large excavated space adorned with stone steps, which collects the waters of a fine fountain, and in which the foundations of the ancient Baths are still visible.
At the extremity of the principal walk stands an elegant open building of the Grecian order, overarching a basin into which the waters of the celebrated aqueduct of Montpelier are received, and from thence distributed through the town.
Yes, I could have wished for another deluge: I should have cared less to see the waters rise from the ends of Alsace and cover our mountains, than to be bound under the yoke of the Germans.
The fields resign their cheerful bloom, No more the breezes breathe perfume, No more the warbling waters roll; Deserts of snow fatigue the eye, Successive tempests bloat the sky, And gloomy damps oppress the soul.
So rare an event might well have caused astonishment; for since the place had been deserted by the fishermen, the landlocked waters of the little cove had never seen the track of a boat.
I gave a Lunacy Commissioner once a hoarseness that required a course of the waters at Vichy to cure; not to say that, by answering at cross purposes, one can disconcert the most zealous inquirer.
Nothing disturbed the stillness of the night but the rustling of the waters at my feet, the heavy tramp of a horse's hoofs upon the bridge, and the sound of a blacksmith's hammer.
Everything is still very wild in these parts of the land, and tho mineral watersabound everywhere, the bathing-places are very primitive.
This river begins its course in the Southeastern Carpathians, right up among the snow-peaks, amid wild and beautiful scenery, and it eventually empties its waters into the Danube at Titel.
He spoke of the commanding physical position of Pennsylvania, forming, as it were, the key-stone between the North and the South, the waters of the Atlantic and the Mississippi.
An oasis of verdure and of flowers, Love smiteth on the Pilgrim's weary way; There fresher air, there sweeter waters play, There purer solace charms the quiet hours.
Canst thou, Elhadra, reach out of the grave, And draw the goldenwaters of love's well?
Words and ideas of the kind were still all strange and double-edged to her--suggesting on the one side the old feelings of contempt and resistance, on the other a new troubling of the waters of the heart.
The tyrant river that she loved, had received her, had taken her life, and then had borne her on its swirl of waters straight for that little creek where, once before, it had tossed a human prey upon the beach.
The music of the rippling waters over the brown, moss-grown boulders mingled with the rustle of the leaves above, as now and then the soft wind swept up the narrow valley.
The darkness of the night after that sunlit garden, and the monotonous roar of the train, and the face of smiling France covered with snow, and the yeasty waters of the Channel, and the moaning of the wind, filled his heart with dread.
There, beside the still waters of Black Pond, was a small shack rudely knocked together from rough pine slabs and chinked with moss.
The swamp was a sucking enemy, trying to drag him under and hold him close, until the foul waters should close over his head; it bubbled under him, seeming to chuckle like a fiend.
Wally was in charge; he was sending out three boats to patrol the waters about the dock and posting the guards who would stand in various places about the tower to be on the watch for water accidents.
The blue watersof the lake reflected a hundred white bodies standing about the edge of the dock waiting for Wally's whistle.
Hence in the Christian scheme that Aspect is called "the Giver of Life", the Spirit who brooded over the face of the waters of space.
That which came before it in the order of evolution was the Mongolian race, usually called in Theosophical books Atlantean because the continent from which it ruled the world lay where now roll the waters of the Atlantic ocean.
Ten miles away we came once again "plump" upon the boiling waters of the creek, where it reappeared after a twelve-mile digression in the bowels of the earth.
First at the head-waters of the Mina Pusa, in July, '76; last in the valley of the Milk River.
On the night of September 7th we were halted near the head-waters of Grand River.
On the night of the 28th we were encamped in pitchy darkness in a narrow valley at the head-waters of the North Fork of the Mina Pusa.
And now while the waters seemed smooth and skies serene he thought it best to intrust her guidance to other hands.
Beyond lies a vast plateau covered with tall grass, showing here and there a solitary palm, and stretching away to the head waters of the Niger.
Not even the fertility of the irrigationwaters will maintain the land in the face of poor agricultural practice.
The impounding of waters without regard to preserving natural water-falls, streams, and other scenery, is a mark of a commercial and selfish age, and is a procedure that cannot be tolerated in a highly developed society.
And yet even she had begun to look upward, for the waters had closed above her head.
But he found that, although the lovely form of its own Naiad lay on the brink of the Well of Song, its waters would not flow: during the sirocco of passion, its springs withdrew into the cool caves of the Life beneath.
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
He replaced them in their old quarters in the escritoire; and his vague dismay at the unaccountable noises, was drowned in the bitter waters of miserable humiliation.
The Medusae, or, more familiarly, sea blubbers, are seen in the waters that lave our own shores.
As we have said, no whales ever enter the warm waters of the Gulf Stream; therefore, at that time at least, the leviathan could not avail himself of this rich provision.
But it is only the lesser masses falling into deep waters which could justify the popular opinion.
The line of demarcation between the warm waters of the Gulf Stream and the cold waters of the sea is so sharp and distinct, that by the use of the thermometer the precise minute of a ship's leaving or entering it can be ascertained.
But these waves, however large they may be, do not affect the waters of the ocean more than a few yards below its surface.
The black sea is crested with white foam, which is quickly swept up and mingled with the waters above; while those below heave up their billows, and rage and roar in unison with the tempest.
The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.
The woods were full of it; the waters rolled with it, and the winds.
It can breathe air by means of its lungs, and when waters dry up, it encases itself in a nest of hard mud, where it remains till the rainy season.
They formerly inhabited the region about the head waters of the North Platte.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
