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As they were handed up, the prisoner, who had been wetting his lips, said plainly, "There's nothing in them about this business," and was reproved by Sergeant Weeks.

From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

There was a cut upon his forehead, and they had been wetting his hair, which lay bedabbled and entangled on the pillow.

From Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles