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.

The water was deep and Brownlow took his troopers across naked -- except for guns, cartridge boxes and hats.

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 ''.

Yet another explanation is that, while derived from the afore mentioned root, the name of the sea is related to naming for various forms of water and related substances in several European languages, that might have been originally associated with colors found in swamps.

Regions have water with different mineral components ; as a result, different regions were originally better suited to making certain types of beer, thus giving them a regional character.

The acronym refers to its deuterium-oxide ( heavy water ) moderator and its use of ( originally, natural ) uranium fuel.

Cocktails were originally a mixture of spirits, sugar, water, and bitters.

Disperse dyes were originally developed for the dyeing of cellulose acetate, and are water insoluble.

" In Sumerian E-A means " the house of water ", and it has been suggested that this was originally the name for the shrine to the God at Eridu.

The imperial ( UK ) gallon, defined as litres, is used in some Commonwealth countries and was originally based on the volume of 10 pounds of water at.

Robert A. Heinlein originally coined the term grok in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land as a Martian word that could not be defined in Earthling terms, but can be associated with various literal meanings such as " water ", " to drink ", " life ", or " to live ", and had a much more profound figurative meaning that is hard for terrestrial culture to understand because of its assumption of a singular reality.

The device uses the water hammer effect to develop pressure that allows a portion of the input water that powers the pump to be lifted to a point higher than where the water originally started.

The United States originally used horse-powered machinery to power its earliest factories, but eventually switched to water power, with the consequence that industrialisation was essentially limited to New England and the rest of the Northeastern United States, where fast-moving rivers were located.

These were originally constructed to aid drainage of water from the platforms, but they also help prevent death or serious injury when a passenger falls or jumps in front of a train.

The word " Michigan " originally referred to the lake itself, and is believed to come from the Ojibwa word mishigami meaning " great water ".

The kilogram was originally defined to be equal in mass to the amount of pure water contained in a one-liter container.

Semitic Mem probably originally pictured water.

These were originally proposed to support navigation even in times of low water, but river-borne transport was already declining due to improved road and rail systems.

At the end of the high street there is a roundabout known as the Fountain Roundabout because it has a fountain which was originally used for drinking water by horses.

Although originally from New Jersey, wax-wrapped salt water taffy is a popular item sold in tourist areas.

The device uses the water hammer effect to develop pressure that allows a portion of the input water that powers the pump to be lifted to a point higher than where the water originally started.

Such paints cure by a process called coalescence where first the water, and then the trace, or coalescing, solvent, evaporate and draw together and soften the binder particles and fuse them together into irreversibly bound networked structures, so that the paint will not redissolve in the solvent / water that originally carried it.

When the experiments that had produced polywater were repeated with thoroughly cleaned glassware, the anomalous properties of the resulting water vanished, and even the scientists who had originally advanced the case for polywater agreed that it did not exist.