"Wet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... upheaved of old from the abyss, and composed chiefly of granitic gneiss and a red splintery horn-stone. It contains also numerous veins and beds of hornblend rock and chlorite-schist, and of a peculiar-looking granite, of which the quartz is white as milk, and the feldspar red as blood. When still wet by the receding tide, these veins and beds seem as if highly polished, and present a beautiful aspect; and it was always with great delight that I used to pick my way among them, hammer in hand, and fill my ...
— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller
... Stones are very hard; wet them, and lay them in a coarse Cloth; put to them two or three large Handfuls of Salt, rub them 'till the Roughness is off, then put them in scalding Water; set them over the Fire 'till they almost boil, then set them off the Fire 'till they are almost cold; do so two or three ...
— Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts. (1733) • Mary Eales
... felt the influence of the cold, wet, cheerless morning quite as keenly as her mistress. Mrs. Madden was superstitious, as most ignorant and simple-minded people generally are, more or less. Superstition is, after all, only a dim, unconscious poetry, which is latent in most natures, except in such ...
— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... in India, to guard the passage of the wet ditch in fortified places, both against desertion and surprise, is by keeping numbers of ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II • Robert Kerr
... flooded country, their sovereign, on foot, at the head of his legions, shared their fatigues and animated their diligence. In every useful labor, the hand of Julian was prompt and strenuous; and the Imperial purple was wet and dirty as the coarse garment of the meanest soldier. The two sieges allowed him some remarkable opportunities of signalizing his personal valor, which, in the improved state of the military art, can seldom be exerted by a prudent general. The emperor stood before the citadel before ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon
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