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He knew perfectly well that the doctor had both whisky and tea in the house, but he recognised the impossibility of getting either the one or the other. He raised the glass to his mouth. "Glory be to God," he said, "but it's the first time I've wetted my lips with the same this twenty years!" "It will do you a lot of good if it doesn't give you typhoid," said Dr. O'Grady.
But he only laid a finger beside his nose and bestowed a wink in my direction. Then he took some ashes from his cigar, wetted his finger, and thus ingeniously removed all appearance of newness from the hole he had made, carefully cleaning up the chips and putting them in his pocket. Finally he concealed the brace and bit and opened the trap, disclosing the rough stones of the ballast.
It is a sort of loose nodular limestone, which when wetted and rolled cements together and forms a road-surface smooth and compact as an asphaltum pavement, and of excellent wearing quality. It is a magnificent road to bicycle over; not only is it broad, level, and smooth, but for much of the way it is converted into a veritable avenue by spreading shade-trees on either side.
The rain had soaked through their provision bags, but the bread and meat in the centre were dry; and of these they made a hearty meal and, laying the wetted food round the fire to dry, they wound up the repast with a long draught of wine. "Now, as soon as our breeches are dry, Master Oswald, we shall be thoroughly comfortable." "Yes, one can wish for nothing better.
In all that land which some say God forgot, there was naught but life and happiness, for God had sent the rain. The sun was high in the heavens when, as they neared the summit of the broad pass, a sudden taint came down the wind, whose only burden had been the fragrance of resinous plants, of wetted earth, and of green things growing.
They managed to stop the progress of the unfortunate turtle, though not until they had all been well wetted. With a heave they turned the turtle over and dragged it up again on the dry beach.
The dog, and at particular times when he is more than usually salacious, may, and does diligently search the urining places; he may even, at those periods, be seen to lick the spot which another has just wetted; but, if a peculiar eagerness accompanies this strange employment, if, in the parlour, which is rarely disgraced by this evacuation, every corner is perseveringly examined, and licked with unwearied and unceasing industry, that dog cannot be too carefully watched, there is great danger about him; he may, without any other symptom, be pronounced to be decidedly rabid.
Justice! There was no justice for men, for they were ever in the dark! Or perhaps in his philosophy he thought: Better to be out of, it all! Better to have done with it, like this poor youth.... Some one touched him on the arm. A tear started up and wetted his eyelash. "Well," he said, "I'm no good here. I'd better be going.
He wetted the hot forehead and bathed the pitiful limbs. Presently Clayton opened his eyes. A faint, shadowy smile lighted his countenance as he saw the girl leaning over him. At sight of Tarzan the expression changed to one of wonderment. "It's all right, old fellow," said the ape-man. "We've found you in time.
If the barley was light and thin, whether from unripeness, blight, or any other cause, it will not malt so well; but instead of sending out its roots in due time, a part of it will still be barley. This will appear by putting a handful of unground malt in cold water, and stirring it about till every grain is wetted; the good will swim, and the unmalted barley sink to the bottom.
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