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The privilege enjoyed by older persons to wet their throats with boiled wine excites the curiosity of the children of the peasantry over twelve years of age to such a degree that Genevieve had once put her lips to a glass of boiled wine ordered by the doctor for her grandfather when ill.
The artist takes a mass of wet clay of the desired consistency and size, and fashions it roughly with his hands to something like the proper shape. "It is sometimes necessary to make a little frame of wire upon which to lay the clay, to hold it in its proper place, the wire being easily made to take any form.
You can carry only a blanket or greatcoat on your horse, so that, when you are away from your convoy, which is often enough, you have not much covering, and if it comes on to rain you have a poor time of it. Of clothes, too, you have only what you ride in. If wet, they dry on you; and few and far between are your chances of washing them. All these things sound and are trifles.
They were all silent for a little; Hugh kissing his mother's wet cheeks. Fleda had softly nestled her head in her bosom. But Mrs. Rossitur soon recovered herself. "How bad is it, mother?" said Hugh. "As bad as can possibly be." "Is everything gone?" "Everything." "You don't mean the house, mamma?" "The house, and all that is in it."
That summer I remember we had mowed four acres of grass on the morning of the fifth. But in the afternoon the sky clouded, the night turned wet, and the sun scarcely showed again for a week.
This disease is due to remaining for long periods in the wet and mud, to racked nerves, and, I am inclined to think, to sleeping in the foul air of the dug-outs. The chief symptom is high temperature, and the patient aches a good deal. I was sent back to a place in the neighborhood of Arras and was there a week recuperating.
Worm-marks, ripple-marks, and the footsteps of alligators, birds and beasts, abound in the wet sand. The vegetation of the banks consists of annuals which find no permanent resting-place.
Some of the girls in his class read his name, and had no more to say about wet clothes. Hortense, on the front seat of the car, had had the good sense to say little and the acumen to listen much. She knew that Cope must "call" soon, and she knew it would be on some evening when he had been advised that Amy was not at home.
I couldn't walk a mile to save my life." "And they will come off if they get wet." "But they make me very tall." "They don't wear as well as moccasins." Both laughed delightedly till he broke in, impulsively: "Oh, girl, don't you know how beautiful you are?" "Of course I do!" she cried, imitating his change of voice; then added, naively, "That's why I hate to take it off."
"Yes, I'm safe enough; but wet just the same; the thing bobbed under." "It will hold us up though, don't you think?" "Why, of course, it will float; it is supposed to support four people. It rides dry enough now. But but, Captain West, I want you to come." "I'm coming; I'll throw my shoes and coat over there to you first. To be rid of them will make swimming easier. Watch out now good!
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