| 单词 | water-washed |
| 例句 | By sunset, however, the tight ranks of clouds seemed to relent; some drifted apart, and stretches of water-washed blue set off the oranges tinting the western skies. A humid Saturday seemed to suggest the stickiness of summer 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Just then a broad sconce-piece, or low water-washed berg, came driving up from the southward. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z They will also bear harsher treatment, closer cultivation, and are in every respect superior to the water-washed soils of a humid country. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z I sold, the last season, water-washed wool, of very fine quality, for thirty cents per pound. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Meanwhile the snow-bird would perch upon a mossy boulder, or water-washed stone, and watch for the tiny troutlets, which sought for shelter and sunshine in the shallower water. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z After nitration the yellow tetryl separates out, and is filtered off and water-washed till free from acid. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z The bare, water-washed eye of the fish is protected in the higher forms from drying up by eyelids and glands which secrete moisture. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z This is a nice old half-forgotten sort of place," thought I, "a kind of vulgar Venice, water-washed, and muddy, and dreary, and do-nothing. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance Blake could give all his thought to picking the best and quickest way through rapids and falls, over the water-washed rocks and along the side ledges. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation Near by was a pebbly beach where one could gather driftwood for a fire, or could pick up smooth water-washed stones to build walks and walls for tiny imaginary people. Three Little Cousins He was a good sailor, but a poor lover, and—a reeling, water-washed deck in a gale of wind is an embarrassing obstacle to love-making. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility One boulder in particular had had its origin in a valley where rounded fragments of water-washed greenstone had been poured out by the torrents and frozen into the coast-ice of the belt. The Ocean and its Wonders There was no noisy babbling, but a soft, low, hissing rush, as the swift stream hurried amidst the stones and water-washed roots of the trees upon the banks. Middy and Ensign Instead of the earthy smell of the forest mold in your nostrils is the clear tang of sun-bathed, water-washed rocks; and the sky begins to swim, to lose itself at the horizon. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom Now a vivid flash of light revealed the water-washed deck. Curlie Carson Listens In And there was activity on the water-washed rocks before them. Star Hunter They bounded off her round-tower and her water-washed decks like pebbles. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis Judge then of my surprise when I rode up out of the water-washed gully and found them nowhere in sight. Raw Gold A Novel When he reached the break in the water-washed rock just ahead, the spidery horror would strike and against its attack he was defenseless. Plague Ship The dog started at the sound of command and followed his master across the water-washed deck to the group of ship's officers who were gathered around the captain of the boat. Prince Jan, St. Bernard The grey-green waves looked mountain-high when seen from the water-washed deck of the Catspaw, and the wind, while seeming to have passed its wildest stage, still blew hard. The Adventure Club Afloat Indeed, he might very well have hung in that equilibrium of forces until tired out, had not a slender, water-washed alder root offered itself to his grasp. The Rules of the Game The latter, with Bushy Park, an appendage, fills a water-washed triangle of some two miles on each side. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 It was a rough ride, over water-washed boulders down the Dyea Valley; but he roused only when the wagon hit the highest places. Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews I looked at it; it was the water-washed frame of a horse,—brutes together! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 As the islands consist entirely of coral, and at one time must have existed as mere water-washed reefs, all their terrestrial productions must have been transported here by the waves of the sea. The Voyage of the Beagle The ground is dry and gravelly, a deposit of water-washed cobbles and pebbles derived from moraines—conditions which readily explain the absence of trees here and on other prairies adjacent to Yelm. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon He came back with great leaps across the jam, one huge hand filled with round, water-washed pebbles. Before Adam The stones are mostly white quartz and ironstone, small and water-washed. Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart The rock here is all white sandstone, and thinly overlaps an enormous bed of coal, cropping up from beneath the water-washed surface. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal Their hunting grounds were the holes and crevices beneath the stones or in the water-washed walls of the lake shore. Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Then she wrung them out and spread them one by one on the flat water-washed stones around, which were by now thoroughly warmed with the sun. Jess Roger had done something of the sort before, but he had had fragments of stone from the masons' work instead of water-washed pebbles. Masters of the Guild It cannot be believed that the water-washed soils of the East retain as much fertility as the dry soils of the West. Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall Almost in the centre of this cemetery was a little mound of water-washed rock that had endured when the rest of the stony plain was denuded in past epochs. The Ivory Child Captain Moresby found on one water-washed reef the marks of wells and graves, which were excavated when it supported an islet. Coral Reefs It was a rough ride, over water-washed boulders down the Dyea Valley; but he roused only when the wagon hit the highest places. Lost Face |
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