brine
noun
water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt.
brinish
-
a word derived from
brine.
Example Sentences
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Now is the joy they lived in All turned to brinish tears, And resolute attempts to sin Turn'd into hellish fears.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan
Next day did many widows come Their husbands to bewail; They wash’d their wounds in brinish tears, But all would not prevail.
From Essays and Tales by Henry Morley
O pure unspotted Nemo, sole paragon Of Love, of Conscience and perfection; The marble of remorse I sit upon Sweats scalding drops, like bitter brinish tears.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt
Who markes the waxing tide, Grow waue by waue, Expecting euer when some enuious surge, Will in his brinish bowels swallow him.
From Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
My royal army is as great as his, That, from the bounds of Phrygia to the sea Which washeth Cyprus with his brinish waves, Covers the hills, the valleys, and the plains.
From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 2 by Christopher Marlowe
