waterish

Example Sentences

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Now when wine is mixed with a great deal of weak liquor, it is overpowered by that, loses its strength, and becomes flat and waterish.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

The sudden string Rang, and sprang inward, and the waterish air Hissed, and the moist plumes of the songless reeds Moved as a wave which the wind moves no more.

From A Book of Myths by Stratton, Helen

These so long as they beare, they beare lesse, worse, and fewer fruit, and waterish.

From A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England by Lawson, William, fl. 1618

Some thinke the Hasell would haue a chanily rocke, and the sallow, and eller a waterish marish.

From A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England by Lawson, William, fl. 1618

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