brine
noun
water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt.
brinish
-
a word derived from
brine.
Example Sentences
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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
Next day did many widows come, Their husbands to bewail; They washed their wounds in brinish tears, But all would not prevail.
From The Book of Brave Old Ballads by Sir John Gilbert
Johnson, in his “Wonder-Working Providence,” describes Boston as surrounded by the brinish floods, and as having, on the north-west and north-east, “two constant Faires, kept for traffique thereunto.”
From Curiosities of History Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 by William W. Wheildon
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 washed their wounds in brinish tears; But all would not prevail!
From English Songs and Ballads by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland
