There were no houses, no palms, no cultivation; only rocks and the crumbling copings of the ancient wells broke the awful monotony of the desert.
We were also told that as like as not all the wells on Gallipoli would be poisoned, and that we should have to do on our water-bottles for three days.
And surely Bethulia has more wellsthan any other city of Judea.
Take women and old men Charmis, and go ye to the wells and bring water to the city, for the wells are delivered into my hands.
Next, ye shall send men for water to the wells beneath the city that all may drink, for already the Assyrians are fled from the wells, knowing that Holofernes is dead.
The wells are at the foot of the hills, and Holofernes has seized them all.
The stone walls and little wells in the cottage gardens are green with immemorial moss and ferns, and fragrant with gadding violets that ripple down their sides and checker them with blue.
The wells in the deserted gardens fill the air to-day with odors of the dead.
The Boxers filled these wells up to the brim with the mutilated bodies of little boys from the Brothers' school and from Christian families in the neighborhood.
And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
O chief," said Hamilton, "it is an order of Sandi that you shall dig no wells near towns, and yet you have done this.
In the small cities, especially, the water should be boiled during the months when the supply is limited and the wells are low.
They pretend that they like Mr. Wells and the other preachers; they express intense interest in new and ponderous books, in the presence of Youth--when they ought to yawn frankly and bury themselves in romances.
If the intrepid king of the motor boys had only guessed what was waiting for him in Wells County, his sleep would probably not have been so sound or so peaceful as it was.
If anything happens to it, or if you're delayed in Wells County, there's fifteen thousand gone up the spout.
Motor Matt had the Wells County country firmly fixed in his mind.
Here was Motor Matt's enemy, the very man who had set in motion the plot which, through Hackberry, had lured the king of the motor boys into Wells County on a useless quest.
Why, pard, if the automobile is any good at all we'll lead you all the way to Wells County.
By his care the wells had been deepened, and a trench dug outside the ramparts, towards the north.
In addition to the supply from the wells within the limits of the camp, the Romans collected the water of the springs on the northern plateau, by means of pipes made of trunks of trees bored lengthwise and joined end to end.
Wells were sunk in each of the circles of the tribes, and in the inclosure of the Nemede.
What a great Roman naturalist has said of the utility of wells and caverns, is repeated in the New World by the most ignorant Indians of Quito, when they shew travellers the guaicos, or crevices of Pichincha.
There lies the source of evil which some evil power perhaps without us stirs up till it wells over in misery.
You are of course obliged to accept their explanations, for if they were to assert that there were no wells at all, you would not be a bit the wiser.
It is easier for them to draw their water from a pool than to fetch it from a distant well; and to cover their indolence, they invariably assure you that thewells are salt.
One was Wells Pearson, foreman of the Mucho Calor cattle ranch.
Wells Pearson, of the Mucho Calor, and Burrows, of Green Valley," was the response.
This is what these wells and teachers do, so that they who were almost escaped must fall into the snare of wickedness, and for the first time be truly captured.
They are wells without water, and clouds driven about by the whirlwind.
From the wells runs a pipe-line conveying oil for about two hundred and seventy-five miles to the refinery at Syriam, where a populous town has sprung up.
Into shallow wells dug by hand men went down, clad in a sort of diver's costume, and laboriously baled out oil with a bucket.
The wells were owned by a close corporation of local Burmans known as twinzas,[276] who had exclusive hereditary rights.
Of late years the oil-fields have been exploited with all the resources of modern science by companies who, by grant or purchase, have acquired rights over wells and oil-bearing land.
I have been looking over the correspondence of the pretended Amena andWells this evening--I now see the whole cruel deception.
I found some of the correspondence between him and that degraded Wells and Amena.
Wells tells me that you are licking your chops, Tom, in expectation of my book coming out.
The family of Charles Wells lived at this address.
The boats returned freighted with cocoa-nuts and scurvy-grass, and the officer told me that he had found two more wells of good water, not far from the beach.
The two wells from which, we got our water bear about S.
I found thewells so convenient, that I left the mate and twenty men on shore to fill the water, and ordered a week's provisions to be sent them from the ship, they being already furnished with arms and ammunition.
And so the Day, about to yield his breath, Utters the stars unto the listening Night, To stand for burning fare-thee-wells of light Said on the verge of death.
I will do as the prophet to Agag did: They come to poison the wells of the Word, I will hew them in pieces before the Lord!
He will not find much help from the God that Mr. Wells has discovered, or invented, but the God that dwells in gardens is sufficient for all our needs--let the theologians say what they will.
As these skins are filled indiscriminately from wells and tanks, and cleaned inside with pitch, the taste must not be expected to satisfy all palates; but if hunger is the best sauce for food, thirst is an equal recommendation for drink.
It is a fine big house in a large garden, with wells and fruit trees: yes, my Lord.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wells" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
