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Sentences ending with damp

The day itself was dark and damp. [9]
He looked round the small room, bare, unfurnished, severe-terribly severe; he looked at the blank walls and the barred window, high up; he looked at the floor--it was discoloured and damp. [11]
This is the only place in the world where no breed of matches can stand the damp. [5]
The only means of heating being from the corridor, when the door was ajar, the cell was chilly and at this time damp. [5]
The guides at length conclude that it is going to be damp. [4]
The artist said it was a sort of dry-plate process, to be developed in the mind afterwards; Mr. King likened it to a dry smoke without lighting the cigar; and the doctor said it certainly had the sanitary advantage of not being damp. [4]
The night was dark and damp. [2]
The bedding is damp. [4]
But you are damp! [2]
It still rained, and we arrived in St. Nicolaus quite damp. [4]

Sentences containing damp two or more times

The damp of his brow was as the damp of death as Rockwell's lips touched it. [11]
What do you do when you build a house on a damp soil, and there are damp soils pretty much everywhere? [6]

More example sentences with the word damp in them

And has the young lady really been carried to the damp room? [10]
The morning came with a cloudy, damp dawning. [9]
The long mustache, which usually curled so arrogantly upwards, now drooped damp and limp over his mouth and chin, and his long reddish hair fell in dishevelled locks around his bloated face. [10]
So he forestalled what might be the next move: "Some of us pumped on our heads--mine's damp yet. [5]
At all the watery margins they have been present; not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been and made their tracks. [7]
On the way up town these adventurers bought books on engineering, and suits of India-rubber, which they supposed they would need in a new and probably damp country, and many other things which nobody ever needed anywhere. [5]
She was gone until late at night; and when Old Sophy, who had watched for her, bound up her long hair for her sleep, it was damp with the cold dews. [6]
They only remained two or three days, but it so fell out that she increased her lingering cold, by a long walk over damp ground in thin shoes. [14]
A morning or two later I found the paper, damp from the press, by my plate at the breakfast table. [5]
A cool, damp touch moved across her brow. [13]
We should like to have some statistics as to incompatibility between married couples produced by damp and raw days, and to know whether divorces are more numerous in the States that suffer from a fickle climate than in those where the climate is more equable. [4]
It seemed as though it feared to rise in the grey, damp, uninviting atmosphere. [10]
In consequence of this "a walk in the fresh air" always suggested to his mind, damp clothes, wet feet, ruined shoes, a cold in the head, and an attack of indigestion--the result of his sister's greasy cooking. [10]
Ephraim followed him there, and the damp, salt sea-air refreshed him and cooled his brow. [10]
Our naturalist would then perhaps turn to geographical distribution, and he would probably declare that those forms must be distinct species, which differ not only in appearance, but are fitted for hot, as well as damp or dry countries, and for the Artic regions. [1]
He may need them on the water in the damp autumn weather. [10]
The fanatics of the place declare that the fogs are not damp as at other resorts on the coast. [4]
The rest of the party had long felt the chill of the damp night air that blew through the room from the river, but knowing that the father suffered more from heat than from anything, they had all willingly endured the draught. [10]
She sat in the parlour with her guest until Mr. Jenney reappeared with shining face and damp hair. [9]
Oleanders bloomed in the more damp and shady places; slender palms waved wherever the sun was hottest. [10]
The dresses of the ladies were stained and soiled with dust and damp, but otherwise they seemed little the worse for the adventure, save that Mrs. Llyn was shaken, and her face was pale. [11]
The day, in the highest and brightest quarters of the town, was damp, dark, cold and gloomy. [12]
As soon as the door in the back of the vehicle opened, and the cold snowy air entered the dark, damp space under the tilt, Magister Sutor's lips parted in a long-drawn "Ugh! [10]
His nose smelled the damp of it, and suddenly the whole soul of him burst forth. [11]
She had entered the damp cave chamber in a thin summer gown, and it now seemed to be continually growing colder and colder. [10]
He hastily pushed the curling hair off his damp brow, and said: "I do not understand. [10]
Rome without the sun, and with rain and the bone-penetrating damp cold of the season, is a wretched place. [4]
To think of submitting a holy cherub to the indignity of a damp cloth! [4]
Down in the street, instead of the King's white soldiers, was a foul, unkempt rabble, creeping out of its damp places, jesting, cursing, singing. [9]
Some of the stalactites that hung from it looked like great icicles, and some of them looked like damp, grey clothes hung out to dry. [10]
The Canada Mayflower spread a carpet under the pines; and in the hollows where the mists settled, where the brooks flowed, where the air was heavy with the damp, ineffable odour of growing things, they gathered drooping adder's-tongues, white-starred bloodroots and foam-flowers. [9]
But beneath the slope, by the cart with the wounded near the panting little nag where Pierre stood, it was damp, somber, and sad. [2]
It would be severely cold if the Gulf Stream did not make it always damp and curtain it with clouds. [4]
They store up seeds, of which they prevent the germination, and which, if damp, are brought up to the surface to dry. [1]
One beauty was screaming at the top of her voice because she had received a blow from her neighbor's dainty little slipper, while another was lying in lazy contemplation, still as death, on the damp, warm floor. [10]
After twenty miles' ride he was dry as a bone, after thirty his skin was moist but not damp, and there was not a drop of sweat on the skin-leather of his fatigue cap. [11]
The school is removed from Cowan Bridge (a situation as unhealthy as it was picturesque--low, damp, beautiful with wood and water) to Casterton. [14]
Rostov thrust the purse under the pillow and shook the damp little hand which was offered him. [2]
They raised their pile of dry brush and damp weeds higher and higher, and when they saw the thick cloud begin to roll up and smother the tree, they broke out in a storm of joy-clamors. [5]
Petya wiped his perspiring face with his hands and pulled up the damp collar which he had arranged so well at home to seem like a man's. [2]
Little clouds floated over the damp, grassy earth, rotting tree-trunks, piles of wood and heaps of twigs that surrounded the kiln. [10]
Clouds were lowering over the city, and big drops falling, as Stephen threaded his way homeward, the damp anal gloom of the weather in his very soul. [9]
Once in three or four months he would get a little intoxicated; but, as a general thing, he was a wary and cautious drinker, although always ready to damp himself a little with the enemy. [5]
It needs now only the south wind to sweep over it, full of the damp breath of death; and that begins to blow. [4]
Why, it's like old times, to step right into the study, damp from the breakfast table, and sail right in and sail right on, the whole day long, without thought of running short of stuff or words. [5]
This was the office of the northeast wind: it made the snow damp, and increased its bulk; but then it rained a little, and froze, thawing at the same time. [4]
Farewell, and think of the poor tormented Boges in this tremendous heat, when you feel the cool damp earth. [10]
The still air of the night and the heavy, damp odors of the foliage helped me. [9]
The green grass of the inclosure in which it stands is damp enough for frogs. [4]
The warm scents of spring were wafted through the open door and window, smells of the damp earth giving forth the green things, and tender shades greeted my eyes when I paused and raised my head to think. [9]
After these fits of irritability her face would grow yellow, and her maids knew by infallible symptoms when Belova would again be deaf, the snuff damp, and the countess' face yellow. [2]
Now the piles of damp bagasse burn slowly, and smoke like Satan's own kitchen. [5]
Determined to let nothing damp his spirits, Caesar merely shrugged his shoulders, and gave orders to admit the maiden, and--should they have accompanied her--her father and brother. [10]
These hollows were not valleys, and there were no trees in them, or any other difference in the vegetation, and as they were absolutely dry there could have been no smell of damp earth. [1]
But he could not find it, and exclaimed with surprise: "How damp and cold it is--this is clay, and our jar was a gourd. [10]
The cold, damp north-west wind drove heavy clouds together and darkened the sky. [10]
On damp, murky nights, these scattered skeletons gave forth a soft, hideous glow, like very faint spots of moonlight starring the vague desert. [5]
In one corner, near a stone water-jar, lay a large, damp, shining mass of clay. [10]
You will excuse my wearing my hat, but the palace is damp, and the marble floor is--if I may be allowed the expression--sloppy. [12]
On this autumn morning, under this grey sky, from which sank a damp, light fog, with these hopes and fears in his heart, he beheld in both the present and future naught save shadows. [10]
If nothing is more trying than one of these out-of-door meetings on a cold, windy, damp day, nothing can be more delightful than such a social gathering if the place and the weather are just what we could wish them. [6]
Now came some more chamber-maids and retouched the sidewalk, and afterward wiped the marble steps with damp cloths and finished by dusting them off with feather brushes. [5]
These quarters are mere tunnels under a dozen feet of earth, with a door on the parade side and a casement window on the outside--a damp cellar, said to be cool in the height of summer. [4]
Here is Aunt Maria, usually serene, on the verge of hysterics: she says he shouldn't stay in that damp cave another minute. [9]
It has a low back porch looking towards the water and over a mouldy garden, damp and unseemly. [4]
The rooms were low and damp, the clammy walls were pierced with chinks and holes, the rotten floors had sunk from their level, the very beams started from their places and warned the timid stranger from their neighbourhood. [12]
People not in love can sometimes find a damp place in the sand. [4]
These heeded it little, even though a good number of them came from the damp islands lying between the north Atlantic and the German Ocean. [11]
The poor damp laborers were stricken to the heart with fright, and stampeded for the high grass in a body. [5]
The courtiers of King Canute (I am not afraid of the old comparison), represented by the adherents of the traditional beliefs of the period, move his chair back an inch at a time, but not until his feet are pretty damp, not to say wet. [6]
The city, with its throng of steeples, was surrounded by a damp vapour which the reflection of the sun coloured with a faint, scarcely perceptible roseate hue. [10]
The marble floor is green and damp and slippery. [4]
Janet, too, got into bed, but sleep was impossible: the odour lurked like a foul spirit in the darkness, mingling with the stagnant, damp air that came in at the open window, fairly saturating her with horror: it seemed the very essence of degradation. [9]
While they were in progress, Mr Quilp withdrew to the adjoining room, and, turning back his coat-collar, proceeded to smear his countenance with a damp towel of very unwholesome appearance, which made his complexion rather more cloudy than it was before. [12]
But perhaps his illness has only just taken a favourable turn, and it's too late for him to come out, for it's very damp and there's a heavy dew. [12]
For your gratification I have spent a sleepless night in those cold, damp woods; and I warn you that practical joking can be carried too far. [9]
Here again he heard the murmur of a spring, the grass under his feet was damp, and covered with a film of ice, in which were mirrored the stars, now gradually fading. [10]
She put her head out into the damp night air, and the countess saw her slim neck shaking with sobs and throbbing against the window frame. [2]
In San Francisco he visited with us the dens of the opium smokers, in damp cellars, with rows of shelves around, on which were deposited the stupefied Mongolians; perhaps the lowest haunts of humanity to be found in the world. [6]
I've heard say he smells damp and cold, like a grave. [5]
Many a time he had caught up a handful of the damp dust and smelt it, as an expert gardener would crumble the fallen flowers of a fruittree and sniff the sweet perfume. [11]
The marble pillars gleamed as white as snow, and filmy mists, which were beginning to rise from the damp lawn, floated languidly hither and thither on the soft night breeze, like ghosts veiled in flowing crape. [10]
People say that Germany, with her damp stone houses, is the home of rheumatism. [5]
She kept her furniture pretty damp, and so caught cold, and the dampness and the cold and the sorrow together undermined her appetite, and she was a pitiful enough object, poor thing. [5]
To get her from under his influence March had to represent that the place was damp from undried plastering, and that if she stayed she would probably be down with that New York pneumonia which visiting Bostonians are always dying of. [8]
She fancied, however, from the damp wind that blew in her face and relieved her burning head, that they must be nearing the lake or the sea. [10]
Over the whole field, previously so gaily beautiful with the glitter of bayonets and cloudlets of smoke in the morning sun, there now spread a mist of damp and smoke and a strange acid smell of saltpeter and blood. [2]
And, mind you, everybody was doing the same; and the place was that damp I never see anything like it. [5]
His house of entertainment is at the bottom of the valley, a place shut in, warm, damp, and not inviting to a long stay, although the region boasts a good many natural curiosities. [4]
Under an arching elm near the house was the well, stone-rimmed, with its long pole and crotch, and bucket all green with the damp moss which clung to it. [9]
We know the effect of damp weather upon rheumatics, and of the east wind upon gouty subjects, but too little allowance is made for the influence of weather upon the spirits and the conduct of men. [4]
Cold is the Druid's altar-stone, Its vanished flame no more returns; But ours no chilling damp has known,-- Unchanged, unchanging, still it burns. [6]
She opened the door and stepped across the threshold and onto the cold, damp earthen floor of the passage. [2]
His damp bed--the ditch--had gradually filled, but the sleep was so profound that even the rising moisture had not roused him. [10]
On the grass, dew-drenched cobwebs gleamed in the early sun, and the breeze that stirred the curtains was charged with the damp, fresh odours of the morning. [9]
In those blissful days she was content to sit by the hour watching him as, bareheaded in the damp salt breeze, he sailed the great schooner and gave sharp orders to the crew. [9]
It was a dark day, and long after the train had pulled out Cynthia remembered the tearful faces of the family standing on the damp platform of the station. [9]
The night was dark and damp, a scarcely perceptible moisture was descending from above. [2]
The weather was damp, low fever was prevalent, and the household at the Parsonage suffered along with its neighbours. [14]
We saw the damp, dismal cells in which two of Dumas' heroes passed their confinement--heroes of "Monte Cristo. [5]

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