The water was there, so much of it that it spread all through the dead orchard.

But there was water.

Yes, there was plenty of water, too much, and that was probably the trouble.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

There a dozen giant monitors played their seventy-five-foot jets of water against the huge seam of tertiary gravel which was the mountainside.

The water was warm and stale and had a brackish taste.

But it was water.

The water level was higher than their hubs.

He let down the tailgate and was knocked over by the sluice of water.

Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the water.

Already our leaky lifeboat was filled with five inches of water.

Ramey heard the words again inside, weakened, the way moving water sounds through a grove of trees, until he was not sure whether it was sound or light-headedness pressing in his ears.

This was the land of the sladang, the great water buffalo with horns forty inches across the spread.

Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;

he was very thirsty, but he must observe water discipline.

Of course it was water he really craved ; ;

And when this was gone, he hadn't even a little bitter tablet to purify other water if he were to discover some stagnant jungle pool.

There might have been a pool of cool water behind any of these tree-clumps: only -- there was not.

To relieve the itch and sweat galls, the men got into the water whenever they could and since each sizable stream was generally the dividing line between the armies the pickets declared a private truce while the men went swimming.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

`` And Jesus, when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him ''.

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

They kicked their horses through the deep water with their bare heels, drove the Rebels out of their rifle pits and captured four men.

They are laid a minimum of 24'' '' deep and in some areas four feet down, particularly under roads, to stay clear of all other piping such as water and sewers and to minimize shocks from heavy trucking.

Mines need to be recognized as a major element in anti-submarine warfare employment, extended to deep water, and have their effective area per unit increased.

Over in Barre the streets had been deep in swirling water, and bridges were crumpled and gone.

The deep water is used by many people, but it is always clean, for the washing is done outside.

He was deep in water, but at least they could not reach him there.

The depth of water at the apex of the ridge is less than in most places, while the bottom of the ridge is three times as deep.

Hence they can be difficult to install in deep water without special equipment.

For example, if the water is 25 ft ( 8 m ) deep, and the anchor roller is 3 ft ( 1 m ) above the water, the scope is the ratio between the amount of cable let out and 28 ft ( 9 m ).

Upwelling of deep water under the sea ice brings substantial amounts of nutrients.

It mixes very slowly with the upper waters, resulting in a salinity gradient from top to bottom, with most of the salt water remaining below 40 to 70 m deep.

Some common examples are the high electrical conductivity of pure copper, the excellent deep drawing qualities of cartridge case brass, the low-friction properties of bearing bronze, the resonant qualities of bell bronze, and the resistance to corrosion by sea water of several bronze alloys.

While John the Baptist's use of a deep river for his baptism suggests immersion, pictorial and archaeological evidence of Christian baptism from the 3rd century onward indicates that a normal form was to have the candidate stand in water while water was poured over the upper body.

Their colonies create one or more dams to provide still, deep water to protect against predators, and to float food and building material.

Clipperton's lagoon is devoid of fish, and contains some deep basins with depths of, including a spot known as Trou-Sans-Fond, or " the bottomless hole ", with acidic water at its base.

Stagnation of deep sea currents in middle Cretaceous times caused anoxic conditions in the sea water.

After the tectonic creation of Drake Passage, when South America fully detached from Antarctica during the Oligocene, the climate cooled significantly due to the advent of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current which brought cool deep Antarctic water to the surface.

The lens is almost spherical, which is most efficient at focusing the minimal light that reaches deep water.

June 2009 sonar mapping of the Challenger Deep by the Simrad EM120 ( sonar multibeam bathymetry system for 300 – 11, 000 m deep water mapping ) aboard the RV Kilo Moana indicated a depth of.

This creates a vacuum between the hands, arms and head which, with a vertical entry, will pull down and under any splash until deep enough to have minimal effect on the surface of the water ( the so-called " rip entry ").