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 ''.

Clay soils resist wind and water erosion better than silty and sandy soils, as the particles are bonded to each other.

There has also been damage to the reef in Charlotteville village caused by sealing the road at Flagstaff Hill and diverting more silty water down the stream from Flagstaff down to Charlotteville.

Due to these rivers ' muddy runoff, the bay used to be a highly silty water body, but extensive damming of the various river systems has greatly diminish siltage.

The Platte's water was silty and bad tasting, but it was usable if no other water was available.

Threadfins frequent open, shallow water in areas with muddy, sandy or silty bottoms ; they are rarely glimpsed at reefs.

It natively inhabits rivers, and standing water with a silty bottom.

It is found in swamps or flooded grounds where vegetation is dense and the water is either clear or silty.

Loam soils generally contain more nutrients and humus than sandy soils, have better drainage and infiltration of water and air than silty soils, and are easier to till than clay soils.

It may be from either Ojibwe bikodinaa or French meaning " be a high ground " for the promonotory found at the mouth of the river, or from the corruption of the Ojibwe " pekatek " or " mud ",< ref > words referring to " mud " in Ojibwe contain either / jiishkiwag / or / zhashki /; more likely from " silt " containing / bakwebii /, possibly forming bakwe < u > biigotig </ u > weyaa or some similar variation meaning " silty river-water "</ ref > which describes its silty water.

In-stream barriers have reduced the dispersal potential of the crayfish and erosion following agricultural expansion has caused silty water, which is less favourable for the giant freshwater crayfish.

Too bad the marine had no water.

In the end, the crew overcame illness, soldier ant invasions, leaking boats, poor food, attacking hippos, bad water filters, fierce heat, isolation, and a boat fire to complete a memorable film.

Harsh weather ; bad water ; inadequate shelter in winter quarters ; poor policing of camps ; and dirty camp hospitals took their toll.

However Lind, like most of the medical profession, believed that scurvy was essentially a result of ill-digested and putrefying food within the body, bad water, excessive work and living in a damp atmosphere which prevented healthful perspiration.

Ngurunderi and his women settled on the shore, only to suffer bad luck with fishing, being plagued by a water fiend known as Muldjewangk.

Poor water quality and bad sanitation are deadly ; some five million deaths a year are caused by polluted drinking water.

Her foremast, already in bad shape before the battle, was struck by several French cannonballs, and her pumps, already overtaxed in an attempt to keep her afloat, were badly damaged by shots " between wind and water ".

After being forced to delay for several weeks at Bloemfontein due to a shortage of supplies and enteric fever ( caused by poor hygiene, drinking bad water at Paardeburg and appalling medical care ), Roberts resumed his advance.

This is not only bad practice, as it can scorch the contents, it will almost universally burst large flasks, and this is one of the reasons why large flasks are often heated in water, oil, sand and steam baths or using a mantle that surrounds most, or all, of the flask.

Some temples also display a small image of the baby Buddha in front of the altar in a small basin filled with water and decorated with flowers, allowing devotees to pour water over the statue ; it is symbolic of the cleansing of a practitioner's bad karma, and to reenact the events following the Buddha's birth, when devas and spirits made heavenly offerings to him.

* 15th century: Leonardo da Vinci made the first known mention of air tanks in Italy: he wrote in his Atlantic Codex ( Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan ) that systems were used at that time to artificially breathe under water, but he did not explain them in detail due to what he described as " bad human nature ", that would have taken advantage of this technique to sink ships and even commit murders.

The climate of Backergunje is one of the healthiest in Eastern Bengal, owing to the strong south-west monsoon, which comes up directly from the Bay of Bengal, and keeps the atmosphere cool ; but the heavy rainfall and consequent humidity of the atmosphere, combined with the use of bad water, are fruitful sources of disease.

The presence of tannins ( or humic acid ) in well water can make it smell bad or taste bitter, but not be unsafe to drink.

Likewise, a microphone can be buried in the ground, or immersed in water if it is put in a waterproof container, but will give similarly poor performance due to the similarly bad acoustic impedance match.

The water that collects is often noxious, and " bilge water " or just " bilge " has thus become a derogatory colloquial term used to refer to something bad, fouled, or otherwise offensive.

Travelling mainly by water in bad weather, Brock reached Amherstburg on 13 August.

This translates as “ bad drinking water ”.

It is believe by many that it is a Native American word meaning " Hole in the ground ", but it may instead mean " stinking water " or " bad water " in reference to the highly alkaline water in the nearby lake.