Example Sentences

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He was paid "by the piece," "three-halfpence a graft and cider," quantity not specified, but an important part of the bargain because of a superstition that grafts "unwetted" would not thrive!

From Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Savory, Arthur H.

Also the sun, and the wind, and even the moon, took advantage of him when unwetted.

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

My sov'reign's brow is yet uncrown'd, His head unwetted by the holy oil, He is not yet a King.

From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Carlyle, Thomas

Thus it is said the immense river Alfred passed, unscathed, and unwetted, beneath the sea.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan

Bring quiet, sober reason into the loftiest and loveliest enthusiasm of your faith, and then there will be something in it that will live through storm, and walk the water with unwetted and unsinking foot.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Maclaren, Alexander