Use waters in a sentence
Sentences ending with waters
- Men would call your acts treacherous if they knew what you had done; and so indeed they were; but yet I have seen you do things to others--not to me--which could rise only from the fountain of pure waters. [11]
- I am 59 years old; yet I never had a friend before who put out a hand and tried to pull me ashore when he found me in deep waters. [5]
- There they stayed, while the blue lines quivered and fell back through the forests on that short winter's afternoon, dragging their wounded from the stagnant waters. [9]
- I had hoped when I planned the series to bring down this novel through the stirring period which ended, by a chance, when a steamboat brought supplies to Jackson's army in New Orleans--the beginning of the era of steam commerce on our Western waters. [9]
- Is that dinner, Waters? [9]
- She cried out to Hugh as across the waters. [9]
- Shadows had begun to gather in the forest, filmy mists to creep over the waters. [9]
- His very reluctance to discuss with her the problem she had raised warned him that he had been swept into deep waters. [9]
- I saw that the tide was against me, that I was like that old English king who set his throne on the sands and thought he could stay the waters. [9]
- And under these the Meramec, crystal pure, ran lightly on sand and pebble to her bridal with that turbid tyrant, the Father of Waters. [9]
Short sentences using waters
- An' he waters the whisky--curse-his-soul! [11]
- Bitter waters for Jane Withersteen! [13]
- Its waters are all medicinal. [5]
- Here's Waters now. [9]
Sentences containing waters two or more times
- Some vague longing for such a refuge was in Cynthia's heart as she gazed upon that silent place, and then the waters had already begun to run westward--the waters of Tumble Down brook, which flowed into Coniston Water above Brampton. [9]
- But in that direction rolled the waters of the Bitter Lakes and the Red Sea, and how could the Hebrew hosts pass through the deep waters? [10]
More example sentences with the word waters in them
- It will lead your thoughts pleasantly away, upwards to its source, downwards to the stream to which it is tributary, or the wide waters in which it is to lose itself. [6]
- Besides, for two years people have believed that we have abandoned these waters, and the guards think that if we should return, the last time to choose would be these bright nights. [10]
- For four thousand years its waters have not gone dry or its fertility failed. [5]
- On no account would she have left the capital during this period of decision, and, though her husband earnestly entreated her to go to the springs, whose waters had proved so beneficial, she remained in Brussels. [10]
- As the afternoon wore on there were silences, when Honora, by staring over the waters, tried to collect her thoughts. [9]
- The sky, the woods, the waters, the storms, life, death love, the hope and vision of eternity,--these are images that write themselves in poetry in every soul which has anything of the divine gift. [6]
- It takes a woman to sound a woman's heart, and she found there was still love enough under the ruffled waters to warrant the hope of peace and tranquillity. [6]
- Innumerable boarding-houses swarmed with city and country clergymen, who have a well-founded impression that the waters of the springs have a beneficent relation to the bilious secretions of the year, but the resort had not an oppressive air of sanctity. [4]
- Now, mention your wish; my heart is as calmly quiet as the Nile waters which are flowing by so quietly, and I am ready to hear it, be it good or evil. [10]
- Fling open the window-blinds of the chamber that looks out on the waters and towards the western sun! [6]
- Happy are they who on this eventful night can wash their faces in those waters just as the cathedral bell tells midnight; for at that precise moment they have a beautifying power. [4]
- The south winds whistled through the woods, as the waters dashed against the banks, as rapid fire in the pent furnace roars. [5]
- In a little while the waters widened into a lake, which was surrounded by a park, a gift to the city of the Hutchins family. [9]
- The cheerfulness, with which she had met the dwarf, was insincere, and had resembled the brilliant colors of the rainbow, which gleam over the stagnant waters of a bog. [10]
- But her thoughts were uncontrollable, she was drawn continually to the edge of that precipice which hung over the waters whence they had dragged her, never knowing when the vertigo would seize her. [9]
- So the four went beyond the power of gold and gewgaw, and were dragged in the mire around the walls and flung into the yellow waters of the river. [9]
- I made my way across the glistening deck to the saloon where, my newspapers and periodicals neglected, I sat all the morning beside a window gazing out at the limited, vignetted zone of waters around the ship. [9]
- The White Sulphur waters, she said, had not done her a mite of good; she didn't know but she'd oughter see a doctor, but he said that it warn't nothing but indigestion. [4]
- Out of the waters of the proletariat they fished, assiduously and benignly, but at random, strange specimens! [9]
- In the troubled waters of conflicting and intersecting intrigues that eddied about the Emperor's headquarters, it was possible to succeed in many ways unthinkable at other times. [2]
- Did not its waters lead, after long wanderings, to the great highway of the world, and open to her the gates of those cities from which she could take her departure unchallenged towards the lands of the morning or of the sunset? [6]
- In the Virginia waters he had left a cluster of islands bearing his name also. [4]
- To-day its sacred waters are still sweet, but soon it will taste as salt as the north sea with all the tears that have been shed on its banks. [10]
- Besides, the Ems waters and the excellent advice of the physician to whose care she intrusted herself exerted a beneficial influence upon her ailment. [10]
- The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. [7]
- She heard the water murmur at her feet and flow on to the sea; she heard the rushing of all the waters in the world. [13]
- De la Foret was wholly in the hands of Buonespoir, for he knew nothing of these waters and coasts; also he was a soldier and no sailor. [11]
- The crooked Carson was full to the brim, and its waters were raging and foaming in the wildest way--sweeping around the sharp bends at a furious speed, and bearing on their surface a chaos of logs, brush and all sorts of rubbish. [5]
- Beneath his speech was an undercurrent--or undertow, perhaps--carrying her swiftly, easily, helpless into the deep waters of intimacy. [9]
- As the day waned, a heavy cloud hid the sun, and so let down the light that the waters were a dark purple. [4]
- Sometimes, in low voices, we talked of our future; but often, when the wind blew and the deck rocked and the sun flashed upon the waters, a silence would fall between us that needed no word to interpret. [9]
- The sand was very hot and white, and the waters of the Chesapeake rolled like oil under the July sun. [9]
- Its waters are very clear, and it has a pebbly bottom and is shallow for some distance out from the shores. [5]
- Leaving all the vague, waste, endless spaces of the washing desert, the ocean-steamer and the fishing-smack sail straight towards each other as if they ran in grooves ploughed for them in the waters from the beginning of creation! [6]
- It was not until the shadow of the forest had crept far across the lake and the darkening waters were still that we rose reluctantly to put the dishes in the tea basket and start on our homeward journey. [9]
- The experiment of universal suffrage must render the waters of political and social life more or less turbid even if they remain innoxious. [6]
- It pierced the tumult of waters, found the ambushed rocks, and guided the lithe brown arms and hands, so that the swift paddle drove the canoe straight onward, as a fish drives itself through a flume of dragon's teeth beneath the flood. [11]
- The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. [4]
- That pleasant house to the left yonder, in the garden of palms which you can see rising above the waters, is the dwelling of my friend Rhodopis. [10]
- They'd be knocked to smithereens before they could get into the quiet waters of the harbour. [11]
- It never occurred to him that these still waters ran deep, that to awaken this seemingly glacial nature, to kindle a fire on this altar, would be to secure unto his life's end a steady, enduring flame of devotion. [11]
- The English want to fish in our waters, I believe. [4]
- He had no thought of resisting it, for the waters of it swept over his soul like the Atlantic over a lost continent. [9]
- A peaceful place, this Whykokomagh; the lapsing waters of Bras d'Or made a summer music all along the quiet street; the bay lay smiling with its islands in front, and an amphitheater of hills rose behind. [4]
- The waters of this placid subterranean lake are the brightest, loveliest blue that can be imagined. [5]
- Down and down they were buffeted by the rushing waters, over the falls and through the tunnels, with time to think only of that which would save them from immediate death, until they emerged into the sunlight of the plain below. [9]
- He awoke from these memories to gaze down through the criss-cross of a trestle to the twisted, turbid waters of the river far below. [9]
- The like of these had never before been seen in the waters under the earth. [9]
- If through all these dark waters the scornful reviewer have passed clear, refined, free from stain,--with a soul that has never in all its agonies cried "lama sabachthani,"--still, even then let him pray with the Publican rather than judge with the Pharisee. [14]
- Just to empty themselves into the greater waters, there to be lost? [11]
- One day, when the waters were high, and the portages could be dispensed with, they made an excursion through the Riviere des Peres to the lake of that name, the next in the chain above. [9]
- He prayed for the waters to subsidize. [5]
- Looking down at the waters of the Enns under the bridge, Nesvitski suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching... something big, that splashed into the water. [2]
- The sight of the waters of that river stirred me to think of many things. [9]
- You've drunk at the waters of Canaan for the last time. [11]
- While we looked, the waters increased so fast in this place that in a few minutes a torrent was roaring by the little stable and its margin encroaching steadily on the logs. [5]
- All these months the waters had been mounting . [9]
- People talk of the transparent waters of the Mexican Bay of Acapulco, but in my own experience I know they cannot compare with those I am speaking of. [5]
- Power--power, that is the thing of all," she said, her eyes shining and her small fingers interlacing with eager vitality: "power to set waves of influence in motion which stir the waters on distant shores. [11]
- Once seated in the stern between Mr. Carvel's knees, what rapture when at last we shot out into the blue waters of the bay and I thought of the long summer of joy before me. [9]
- I awoke to the sound of the wind whistling through the open lattice, and looking down on the ruffled blue waters of the moat I saw a great white swan at his morning toilet, his feathers dazzling in the sun. [9]
- The azure of the sky penetrates the depths of the lake, and the waters are sweet and cool. [5]
- By the time the seventeenth degree of dilution should be reached, the alcohol required would equal in quantity the waters of ten thousand Adriatic seas. [3]
- Some believed in the scheme to relieve the river, in flood-time, by turning its surplus waters off into Lake Borgne, etc. [5]
- Awhile she watched the sapphire waters break to dazzling whiteness under the westerning sun. [9]
- The cruise of the Ranger in English waters the following spring was a striking fulfilment, with an absurdly poor and inadequate force, of the plan set forth by John Paul Jones in the Annapolis Coffee House. [9]
- The verdure of the Park was freshened to an incredible brilliancy by the dew, a thin white veil of mist was spread over the mirror of the waters, the trees flung long shadows across the turf. [9]
- The waters of the Nile had begun to rise again. [10]
- They were like the murmur of waters, like the sounds of the forest and soft, booming bells. [11]
- The sound of the looms was like heavy rain hissing on the waters of the canal. [9]
- He remembered how the little noises that made rings of sound in the silence of the woods, like pebbles dropped in still waters, had reached his inner consciousness. [6]
- And then, as the light began to grow, we were in the midst of the tumbling waters, the steersmen straining now right, now left, to keep the prows in the smooth reaches between rock and bar. [9]
- He paused on the levee to survey with concern and astonishment the flood of waters behind it, and then asked an officer the way to General Sherman's headquarters. [9]
- Martha Washington and the good ladies of her acquaintance knew nothing about the upper waters of the Missouri, and the words "for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer" were not merely literature to them. [9]
- Next we had the Flood, and the Ark tossing around in the stormy waters, with lofty mountains in the distance showing veiled and dim through the rain. [5]
- But now came the fight between the priest and the mad waters. [11]
- Morning came, and the fifty copies, and Mr. Crewe's personal copy in addition, were handed to him by the faithful Waters when he entered his dining room at an early hour. [9]
- The daughter of the duchess was taught not only to distill strong waters, but to construe Greek. [4]
- She had tasted the cup of bitterness and drunk of the waters of sacrifice. [11]
- She bent over the calm river, and saw them shining in the same majestic order as when the dove beheld them gleaming through the swollen waters, upon the mountain tops down far below, and dead mankind, a million fathoms deep. [12]
- The music in the cabin came to an abrupt pause, and only the tumbling of waters through the planks of the great wheels broke the silence. [9]
- I don't wonder the bodies of so many genteel strangers are found in the waters around New York. [8]
- It smells like the best limburger cheese, and is filthy with the washings of rotting lepers, but that is nothing, bathe in it; bathe in it gratefully and worshipfully, for this is the Fountain of Youth; these are the Waters of Long Life. [5]
- It is true that my waters exhale and are renewed from one season to another; but are your features the same, absolutely the same, from year to year? [6]
- It was then that Mr. Plimpton gathered courage to pour oil on the waters. [9]
- They had learnt that life was as nothing to either of them without the other, and their hearts meseemed were henceforth as closely knit as two streams which flow together to make one river, and whose waters no power on earth can ever sunder. [10]
- In less time than it takes me to write these words he had dragged a hideous, naked warrior out of the brambles, and with an avalanche of crumbling earth they slid into the waters of the creek. [9]
- The palm-trees and sycamores were silvered by the moonlight and threw strange fantastic reflections on the red waters of the Nile-red from the fiery glow of the houses on their shores. [10]
- The wind has swept them into the sea, whose waters cast them forth again upon the land, but the sacred earth spurns them and flings them into the air. [10]
- Think of the surly indifference of the storms that swept the forest and the waters, the earthquake chasms that engulfed him, the inundations that drowned him out of his miserable hiding-places, the pestilences that lay in wait for him, the unequal strife with ferocious animals! [6]
- The lonely waters stretching to the horizon helped to make it so. [11]
- Then a fierce stretching of hands In gloom; and my feet, Treading tremulous over hard sands; A wind that wailed wearily slow, A plashing of waters below, A twilight on bleak lone lands, Spread out; and a sheet Of the moaning sea shallows aflow. [11]
- And the vast stretch of country from that place westward to the Father of Waters was now American. [9]
- The Missouri regiment spread out along the waters, and were soon waist deep, hewing a path for the heavier transports to come. [9]
- And William William Sowerby, He has a tender smile, Which will bring him in due season To the waters of the Nile And the cheery crocodile! [11]
- To compare the situations of any dwellings in either of the great cities with those which look upon the Common, the Public Garden, the waters of the Back Bay, would be to take an unfair advantage of Fifth Avenue and Walnut Street. [6]
- We breakfasted in silence, and with the crew standing ready at the oars and Xavier scanning the wide expanse of waters ahead, seeking for that unmarked point whence to embark on this perilous journey, we floated down the stream. [9]
- On the other side crags and trees and snowy houses were reflected in the lake with a wonderful distinctness, and streams of light from many a distant window shot far abroad over the still waters. [5]
- The setting sun shot slanting rays on the glittering surface of the glassy waters in which the numberless masts of the Nile-boats were mirrored. [10]
- Dropping the pen, she went over to the window, staring out over the grey waters, trembling so violently that she could scarcely stand. [9]
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