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
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
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
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
If it be passionate it will be yellow; if melancholy, it will be black, and if phlegmatic, it will be waterish and whitish.
