All I now ask is that heaven will save me from a watery grave, and see me safe home to my wife Polly.
I would like--yes, sometimes I would like to sweep to a watery grave one of the towns that are a glory to this island, as Savanna la Mar was swept to oblivion in the year 1780 by a hurricane.
He and Michael Clones had eaten and drunk as sailors do, and they had realized that, as they ate and drank on the River Thames, they would not eat and drink on the watery fairway.
Before morning the dead seamen were sunk in watery graves, and the wounded were started back to health again.
First, a thin wateryhumour flowed from one of Naomi's ears, and after that she raised herself on her elbow.
In the chariot he found everything needful both for himself and for the maiden whom he had released from her watery prison, as well as an attendant and a lady's maid.
He could easily deliver her from her watery prison and flowery bondage.
By the doubtful light of a watery moon did I calmly and noiselessly run out the muzzle of my single J.
All the years I have fished here, I have never caught another perch here; and this solitary inmate of the watery element I know by sight better than I know my own lost father.
He did not seem as if the watery element was as familiar to himself as to his Dalilah--the perch.
It was with the greatest difficulty we got to it, and with still greater that at last we reached the top of the cliff, and said good-bye to this watery glen.
While the watery vapor was escaping by the glass tubes, I fastened at each end an apparatus which chemists employ for collecting carbonic acid; that to the left was filled with sulphuric acid, and the other with a solution of potash.
According to an old view, Seb and Nut existed in the primeval watery abyss side by side with Shu and Tefnut; and later Seb became the earth and Nut the sky.
Thou didst create the earth, thou didst fashion man, thou didst make the watery abyss of the sky, thou didst form Hapi (i.
From these statements we learn that Temu and R[=a] were one and the same god, and that he was the first offspring of the god Nu, the primeval watery mass out of which all the gods came into being.
I performed all evolutions there by means of that divine Soul which I fashioned there, and which had remained inoperative in the watery abyss.
My proofs kept me working till two; then I had a fatiguing and watery walk.
That watery saint has for once had a dry festival.
To be the centre towards which scores of the watery meteors gravitate, to witness their apparently spontaneous beginning, their swift, brief, but ineffectual career and lingering end, delights this night of darkness.
Knowing what you are to hear, watery images suggest themselves; for in the world of music it is the ocean that Bach gives us, as Beethoven gives us the winds, and Handel the stately-flowing streams.
The substance is a gas but occurs most commonly in commerce as a watery solution containing approximately 40 per cent.
The phenomena of staining are essentially chemical, though sometimes the chemical union is a very weak one, even resembling an absorption of the dye rather than true chemical union--most watery stains.
His eyes were somewhat dull and watery and he had a moustache of long, hair-like "feelers" that curled stiffly at the ends.
Cousin Joseph, 'whom I found no difficulty in recognising by reason of his watery eyes, appeared not so chirpy as of yore.
A young man with watery eyes, sitting just behind me between a fat young lady and a lean one, rose and suggested my taking his place.
The door opened and old Deleglise entered, accompanied by a small, slight man with red hair and beard and somewhatwatery eyes.
Once breast to breast you join'd, now join as stones, Which watery Ida bears.
Thence borne by adverse winds, he sweeps along, Through boundless ether driven; now here, now there, As watery clouds are swept.
The head, expos'd thus on the foreign sand, And locks still dropping with the watery wave, A snake approach'd.
Thrice had the sun the year completed, each By watery Pisces ended.
The watery Lotus there, “For promis'd fruit in Tyrian splendor bright, “Grew flowering near.
A watery moon shining through a filmy cirrostratus--the outlook wonderfully desolate with its ghostly illumination and patchy clouds of flying snow drift.
All day it has been blowing hard, 30 to 60 miles an hour; it has never looked very dark overhead, but a watery cirrus has been in evidence for some time, causing well marked paraselene.
I suffer very much from a catarrhal affection of the mucous lining of my nose," explained Mrs. Asmussen, blinking at Lilly with somewhatwatery grey eyes.
A flat-breasted person with watery eyes and falling hair who can only see one side of a subject--such a creature should be a teacher.
The embryo floats in a watery fluid, which fills the space between the embryo and the amnion, and is called the amniotic fluid (Figures 1.
In the latter the content is water or a watery jelly; in the former it is a thick mixture, rich in food-yelk, of albuminous and fatty substances.
Watery fluid or jelly gathers inside the globule; the segmentation-cells are loosened, and all rise to the surface.
Mobile cells from the inflamed eye of a frog (from the watery fluid of the eye, the humor aqueus).
That plague which I told you I had handled outside Wallingford in Oxfordshire was of a watery nature, conformable to the brookish riverine country it bred in, and curable, as I have said, by drenching in water.
This Oxfordshire plague, good people, being generated among rivers and ditches, was of a werish, watery nature.
His lordship glared fiercely through his monocle in the direction of the far-away log, his watery blue eyes blinking as malevolently as possible, his long, aristocratic nose wrinkling at its base in fine disdain.
The positive radiance which followed dismay in his watery eyes convinced her beyond all doubt that her brother's encounter with the tall Mr. Shaw was not quite creditable to Bazelhurst arms.
The eyes of the woman were fixed now upon the sky and now upon the unruffled surface of the watery mirror.
It sparkled on the watery mirror of the Golden Horn, hundreds and hundreds of brightly gleaming flags and sails flapped and fluttered in the evening breeze.
