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Moistened by a wintry rain, the leaves of an azalea shed pearls of water.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moistened were the sands, and moistened were the arms of the men with tears; for so brave a master of the flight they longed.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
Shall these lips a doleful lyric Proffer at your ghostly bier, Or compose a panegyric Moistened with a minstrel's tear?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-15 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
Moistened with the solution of nitrate of cobalt, and heated in the oxidation flame, it presents a bead, colored from brick-red to brown, according to the quantity used.
More worthy I then clouts; yet them a flood Moistened of mother's milke and of Son's blood.'
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
