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water and was
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 ''.

water and there
`` There must be some water under there ''.
In a stream that turns a mill-wheel there is a lot of water ; ;
the mill-pond is quiet, its surface dark and shadowed, and there does not seem to be much water in it.
The first time I went there he asked me to bring him water from Flagler's well -- water that reminded him of his first days in the mountains -- and before I came the next time I filled a five-gallon jug for him and brought it to the hospital.
Mark stopped the car and switched off the lights and they sat looking at the water, which, there being no moon out, at first could be distinguished from the sky only by an absence of stars.
And due to modern resource-use and game management practices, there is still game to shoot, even with the ever-expanding encroachment on land and water.
In the second sentence if drinking water is a gerundial clause and without drinking water is roughly equivalent in meaning to unless I drink water, there will be stronger stress on water than on drinking ; ;
but if drinking is a gerundial noun modifying water and without drinking water is equivalent to without water for drinking, there will be stronger stress on drinking than on water.
If you are considering a part-time farm where the water must be provided by a well, find out if there is a good well on the farm or the probable cost of having one drilled.
for those who live in a winter climate, there is nothing better than a bucket of water and snow.
Yet there were always some that moved farther and farther out, seekin' grass and water.
`` It says water works, but there is a policeman on duty, too ''.
He was deep in water, but at least they could not reach him there.

water and so
He could not afford to lose a drop of the precious water, so he spent most of his waking hours along the ditches in his meadows.
Slowly the procession of warriors and statesmen passes through the snow beside the black water and into the brilliantly lighted cathedral, the shrine of so many precious memories.
Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.
A dozen cows mooed sadly and regarded us as if we were insane, as perhaps we were at that moment, with the crazy excitement of our first encounter, the yelling and shooting still continuing up at the road, and the thirst of some of the men, which was so great that they waded into the muddy water and scooped up handfuls of it.
`` I've adjusted the gauge so that the pump cuts out before the water gets too low.
The dust clogged their throats, and the heat parched them, so that the women were always making ice water.
If notched for the battens, they would require more work, be weakened and limber holes would have to be bored so that bilge water could flow through.
The best chance, of course, is offered by gently sloping terrain where the water remains close to the surface and where the air is dry, so that a high evaporation leaves salty deposits which permit only sparse plant growth.
Pond water can be filtered for human use, but most part-time farmers would not want to go to so much trouble.
It was so dark that he didn't see it hit the water and the noisy rush of the ocean kept him from hearing it.
The sensation he so overwhelmingly realized was one which told him he had been there before but he knew he had not, and could not recall any place he had visited to be likened to the limpid green water or the little fountain-falls or the green demon imprisoned beyond his reach.
It is a popular belief that alchemists made contributions to the " chemical " industries of the day — ore testing and refining, metalworking, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, leather tanning, ceramics, glass manufacture, preparation of extracts, liquors, and so on ( it seems that the preparation of aqua vitae, the " water of life ", was a fairly popular " experiment " among European alchemists ).
Most terrestrial caecilians that lay eggs do so in burrows or moist places on land near bodies of water.
To do so, a sample of the soil is mixed into a clear container with some water, creating an almost completely saturated liquid.
The only reason Haas can see for a move so far from water and arable land is defense against enemies.
Averaging at least 1. 6 km thick, the ice is so massive that it has depressed the continental bedrock in some areas more than 2. 5 km below sea level ; subglacial lakes of liquid water also occur ( e. g., Lake Vostok ).
On the scale he used, the boiling-point of water was marked at + 73 and the melting-point of ice at 51, so that the zero of his scale was equivalent to about − 240 on the Celsius scale.
They would heat rocks directly in a fire and then add the bricks to a pot filled with water until it came to a boil so that it would cook the meat or vegetables in the boiling water.
Hot water is poured into the gourd at near-boiling point so as to not burn the herb and spoil the flavour.
Sodium is a " water-holding " ion, so water is also retained, which leads to increased blood volume, hence an increase in blood pressure.
Many autonomous homes can reduce water use below per person per day, so that in a drought a month of water can be delivered inexpensively via truck.

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