1 The two males were as hostile as fire and water.
2 She went to the door and threw the drop of water down the path.
3 No doubt water ought not to be so wet as it is; it overdoes it in wetness.
4 She brought water in a little tin, and was delighted when one of the hens drank.
5 All the flowers were there, the first bluebells in blue pools, like standing water.
6 Downstairs she heard him making the fire, pumping water, going out at the back door.
7 She heard the faint tinkle of water, as the tiny overflow trickled over and downhill.
8 He was silent and he rowed with a strength and ease as if he were alone on the water.
9 She rinsed the tea-pot with hot water, and stood a moment wondering where to empty it.
10 She hated the conglomerate mass of nearly nude flesh on the Lido: there was hardly enough water to wet them all.
11 One afternoon, as she sat brooding, watching the water bubbling coldly in John's Well, the keeper had strode up to her.
12 I'm like Saint Bernard, who could sail down the lake of Lucerne without ever noticing that there were even mountain and green water.
13 And that was what they all wanted, a drug: the slow water, a drug; the sun, a drug; jazz, a drug; cigarettes, cocktails, ices, vermouth.
14 It thrilled inside her body, in her womb, somewhere, till she felt she must jump into water and swim to get away from it; a mad restlessness.
15 It was a lovely summer afternoon, the shallow lagoon rippled, the full sunshine made Venice, turning its back to them across the water, look dim.
16 But anyhow, with all the cocktails, all the lying in warmish water and sunbathing on hot sand in hot sun, jazzing with your stomach up against some fellow in the warm nights, cooling off with ices, it was a complete narcotic.
17 And his white slim back was curved over a big bowl of soapy water, in which he ducked his head, shaking his head with a queer, quick little motion, lifting his slender white arms, and pressing the soapy water from his ears, quick, subtle as a weasel playing with water, and utterly alone.
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