Watering

Examples

• The next station was Mount Clemens, now a watering-place, but then a town of about one thousand. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This very morning the two set out for Wormwood Wells [a noted watering-place], and will stay there some weeks. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Here Mr. Tupman paused, and pressed the hand which clasped the handle of the happy watering-pot. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We hear of him for ever at some watering-place or other. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Everyman must dree his weird, said Carriston, watering-pot in hand. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• So we are getting up the anchors and preparing to sail to his watering-place. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The spinster aunt trembled, till some pebbles which had accidentally found their way into the large watering-pot shook like an infant's rattle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• George's valet was looking on in a very supercilious manner at Mr. Clapp in his shirt-sleeves, watering his rose-bushes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You shall go to a watering-place. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He seized her passive hand, and the watering-pot fell to the ground as he pressed it to his lips. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They hate shams and the watering of goods on a more trustworthy basis than the mere routine moralist. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• What sends them trooping to watering-places? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Irrigation, or the artificial watering of land, is of the greatest importance in those parts of the world where the land is naturally too dry for farming. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I shouldn't like to think of poor Regina's spending the rest of her life in some shabby foreign watering-place for bankrupts. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Once I saw Hortense in the garden watering her flowers, and I know at what time you light your lamp in the counting-house. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Edited by Henry