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Example sentences for "clear water"

  • Just below the valley a spring bubbles forth with crystal-clear water at a temperature of 38 deg.

  • It was torn away from its screws and twisted like a boomerang in mad gyrations down through the crystal-clear water to a depth of 207 feet, there to sleep in the mud of Tso-mavang till the day of judgment.

  • Through the crystal-clear water we see the yellowish-grey mud on the lake bottom, the dark fringe of weeds, and the dark depths beyond.

  • During the afternoon a westerly course was maintained in clear water until 4 P.

  • The larger chunks, by their motion and exposure to wind and current, had a circle of clear water; the deep sea-blue hovering round their water-worn niches.

  • At dark we were in a patch of clear water, with ice all around.

  • Neither mixing milk with the water nor wrapping up the meat in a cloth are necessary, if the scum be attentively removed; and the meat will have a more delicate colour, and a finer flavour, if boiled in clear water only.

  • To clean gold or silver lace, sew it up in a linen cloth, and boil it with two ounces of soap in a pint of water: afterwards wash the lace in clear water.

  • Peel and wash a pound of full grown potatoes, grate them on a bread grater into a deep dish, containing a quart of clear water.

  • In order to clear feathers from animal oil, dissolve a pound of quick lime in a gallon of clear water; and pour off the clear lime-water for use, at the time it is wanted.

  • This was the more distressing as the road, from some recent rain, was full of little puddles of clear water, yet not a drop was drinkable.

  • The black rocks afford a most striking contrast with the bright green vegetation, which follows the banks of a little stream of clear water.

  • The air was delightfully cool and fragrant; and the drops of dew still glittered on the leaves of the large liliaceous plants, which shaded the streamlets of clear water.

  • To one pound of finest pulverized sugar add three wine-glassfuls of clear water.

  • Rinse in clear water to stop the action of the acid.

  • Mix same of the plaster in clear water so it will be a little thick.

  • In the barrel, A, place the iron borings and fill one-half full of clear water.

  • Loop Inclosing a Drop of Water When this is done place a drop of clear water in the loop and the microscope is complete.

  • A small space of "clear water," when the rest of the sea is covered with ice.

  • After two hours' hard pulling, we succeeded in getting the Hecla back again into clear water, and to a sufficient distance from the icebergs, which it is very dangerous to approach when there is a swell.

  • Within the margin of the pack, it appeared to consist of heavy and extensive floes, having a bright ice-blink over them; but no clear water could be discovered to the westward.

  • He was led away to a stream of clear water, where he went through the process of washing with a cake of soap, which was sorely needed.

  • After a march of twelve miles we arrived at a rocky stream of clear water, which is another channel of the Un-y-Ame river, that carries off the main drainage of this country.

  • A tributary of Clear Water Harbor, in Hillsboro county.

  • Clear Water Harbor, the last point before Manatee, was first explored by Narvaez, whom the Indians received without demonstrations of fear or hostility.

  • Again, in clear water which is swift and not deep it may be desirable to let out line by using running tackle.

  • Let us take first the case of clear water, not very rough.

  • As soon as one has become quite white it should be taken out and rinsed in clear water, then carefully dried.

  • So we have to follow the arroyo downwards, keeping about a quarter of a mile to the west of it, till, south of the old church itself, the road at last crosses the wide and gravelly bed, in which a fillet of clear water is running.

  • This thin fillet of clear water, now scarcely 0.

  • The blows of the waves are not struck with clear water only, else they would have little effect on cliffs of solid rock.

  • We may infer from this instance how slight is the erosive power of clear water on hard rock.

  • This was how it was: A spring of clear water arose at the top of a knoll.

  • Had he not struck a bargain with the doctor, he and his mutineers, deserted by the ship, must have been driven to subsist on clear water, and the proceeds of their hunting.

  • It was a large, airy place, with a little spring and a pool of clear water, overhung with ferns.

  • A passing glance at Ireland on Easter morning would show us the people making haste to be out at sunrise to see the sun dance in a pool or pail of clear water.

  • Place the shells in a basin, pour the water upon them, then the acid; let them remain a few minutes, then take them out and wash again in clear water.

  • The last washing, however, should always be in clear water.

  • Small specimens can be cleaned quickly by washing them in dilute muriatic acid, and afterward in clear water to keep the acid from going too far, and then placing them out in the sun to bleach.

  • Now is the time to wash it thoroughly in clear water.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    clear away; clear case; clear conception; clear fire; clear from; clear glass; clear idea; clear proof; clear understanding; clear water; clear yellow; clearer light; clearly defined; each day; eighteenth century; flint arrow; half inclined; hath spoken; her power; man with; oblong square; only too; sat down; section three; slavery abolished; uninhabited note