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.

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 ''.

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.

To remove an insect from one's ear warm water should be inserted.

Another common cure was to soak the feet five or ten minutes in warm water, then to apply a solution of equal parts of soda and common brown soap on a kid bandage overnight.

As for the night being warm, he would have been comfortable naked on Mount Everest but his water brothers had little tolerance for changes in temperature and pressure ; ;

In the meantime he was pleased with the warm night and the still more pleasing company of his water brother.

A salt mouthwash is a home treatment for mouth infections and / or injuries, or post extraction, and is made by dissolving a teaspoon of salt in a cup of warm water.

It can be convenient to use the cistern as a heat sink or trap for a heat pump or air conditioning system ; however this can make cold drinking water warm, and in drier years may decrease the efficiency of the HVAC system.

More general results from the study were that precipitation and water use lead to above-ground primary production, solar radiation and temperature lead to belowground primary production ( roots ), and temperature and water lead to cool and warm season growth habit.

A bain-marie (; also known as a water bath in English,,, or ) is a French term for a piece of equipment used in science, industry, and cooking to heat materials gently and gradually to fixed temperatures, or to keep materials warm over a period of time.

Coasts, especially those with beaches and warm water, attract tourists.

Synthetic fibers and woolens, which dry quickly, shed water, and are warm when wet, are vastly preferred to cotton materials, which retain water and increase the risk of hypothermia.

Furthermore, Cornell's system pumps significantly less warm water back into the lake than others further north which have been operating for decades, including the coal-fired power plant on the eastern shore.

Ice melting in a warm room is a common Entropy # Ice melting example | example of increasing entropy, described in 1862 by Rudolf Clausius as an increase in the disgregation of the water molecules in ice: order leading to disorder

El Niño's warm rush of nutrient-poor tropical water, heated by its eastward passage in the Equatorial Current, replaces the cold, nutrient-rich surface water of the Humboldt Current.

A series of Kelvin waves — relatively warm subsurface waves of water a few centimetres high and hundreds of kilometres wide — cross the Pacific along the equator and create a pool of warm water near South America, where ocean temperatures are normally cold due to upwelling.

Jacob Bjerknes in 1969 contributed to an understanding of ENSO by suggesting that an anomalously warm spot in the eastern Pacific can weaken the east-west temperature difference, disrupting trade winds that push warm water to the west.

Captain Cook arrived first offering a pipe and tobacco to smoke ( which was dismissed as a ' burning thing .. stuck in his mouth '), then boiling a billy of tea ( which was dismissed as scalding ' dirty water '), next baking flour on the coals ( which was rejected as smelling ' stale ' and thrown away untasted ), finally boiling beef ( which smelled well, and tasted okay, once the salty skin was wiped off ).

In Greece, it is called αυγόφετες ( eggslices ) and is typically made from slices of stale bread soaked in milk or water to soften it, dipped in egg, fried in olive oil and served with honey, sugar and cinnamon, cheese ( sometimes cheese feta with honey ), jam or just by itself.

Bread does not go stale by " drying out "— stale " dry " bread weighs the same as moist " fresh " bread, indicating almost no loss of water.

Bread goes stale through a process of retrogradation, in which the starch transposes to a crystalline form in the presence of the water contained within the bread itself.

This involved the pounding of the cloth by foot in soapy water or stale urine.

Other major characters are the prison's manager who is fond of pies and cookies ; the prison bully who has it in for Bobo and his various schemes ; the Professional, a grumpy old prisoner who insists that everything be done " by the book ," his copy of which dates back to before the prison reform movement ( at his insistence, the Professional lives in an old dungeon, wears a ball-and-chain, does heavy labor and only eats stale bread and dirty water ); and Stonie the warden, who always carries a stone ( left over after building the prison ), and which he is constantly trying to get rid off, but his colleagues insist that he carries.

For example, pristine water slowly becomes drinking water, which then becomes stale water.

Off the shelf, on-site energy recycling technologies can effectively recapture energy from waste hot water and stale air and transfer that energy into incoming fresh cold water or fresh air.