Watered

Examples

• It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Medina was a comparatively well-watered town, and possessed abundant date groves; its inhabitants were Yemenites, from the fertile land to the south. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He leaned forward staring at me, slowly unclenched his hand and drew it across his mouth as if his mouth watered for me, and sat down again. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• On that evening the horses had been exercised and watered as usual, and the stables were locked up at nine o'clock. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Whoever labours for man must often find ingratitude, watered by vice and folly, spring from the grain which he has sown. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• My heart, the field of combat, was wounded by the iron heel of the one, watered by the gushing tears of the other. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In the United States, approximately two fifths of the land area is so dry as to be worthless for agricultural purposes unless artificially watered. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Surely the leagues of bright green lawns are swept and brushed and watered every day and their grasses trimmed by the barber. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A shop with a sun-blind, and a watered pavement, and a bowl of gold and silver fish in the window, is a sanctuary. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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