unwet
- a word derived from wet.
Example Sentences
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Pull down the blinds, bring fiddle and clarionet That there be no foot silent in the room Nor mouth from kissing, nor from wine unwet; Our Father Rosicross is in his tomb.
From Responsibilities and other poems by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
More than a thousand ruined souls I saw, Thus fleeing from before one who on foot Was passing o'er the Styx with soles unwet.
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
But thou, unwet thy clustering hair, Heedst not the billows raging wild, The moanings of the bitter air, Wrapt in thy purple robe, my beauteous child!
From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell
Its babble stirs the laughter of the hills; The rooted mountains mock its fume and fret; And all the summer long the idle mills Wait wearily with water-wheel unwet.
From Sonnets and Other Verse by MacKeracher, W. M.
Such episodes belonged to the times; and, after all, by making a circuit of six miles he found the Psalter miraculously unwet, and only his worldly pride remained at the lake's bottom.
From Heart of Man by Woodberry, George Edward
