waterish
Example Sentences
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There is no less variety in the colours; some being light-red, others like the colour of honey, many of a dark ash-colour, but most of a waterish green.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Kerr, Robert
And he called the Duke of Burgundy, in contempt, a waterish duke, because his love for this young maid had in a moment run all away like water.
From Tales from Shakespeare by Lamb, Mary
Causes of barrenness may be over much cold or heat, drying up the seed and corrupting it, which extinguishes the life of the seed, making it waterish and unfit for generation.
The Blood—and the cold cup was in my hand, Cold as an axe-heft washed with waterish red.
From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred
Yet the root of his discontent struck rather deeper than Jasper Hinchey and the cold waterish zone of reform; Ruth had her part in it.
From The Henchman by Luther, Mark Lee
