"Moist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hundred and fifty francs. But I study the manner of the masters and learn a great deal; I found out the secrets of their method. There's one of my own pictures," he added, pointing with the end of his brush to a sketch with the colors still moist. ...
— The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac
... day had been warm and languorous, with heavy showers steaming up again in the sun. Clouds were darkening across the twilight for more rain. Harry turned off to stretch his legs and find some freer air across the fields by the Oxford road. But he was soon tired of them. The moist heat oppressed him still and lowering darkness across the sky threatened a storm. He had no desire for a wetting and an evening spent in the Pretender's clothes. He made for his tavern again by St. Martin's Lane and there came full upon ...
— The Highwayman • H.C. Bailey
... Colorado is a westward extension of the mountains of central Colorado, standing more than five thousand feet above the valleys of the Colorado and the Gunnison rivers. To certain montane mammals the mesa is a peninsula of cool, moist, forest surrounded by inhospitable, hot, ...
— Mammals of the Grand Mesa, Colorado • Sydney Anderson
... which the twins handed her were still moist from the hot little hands that had held them. Maida dropped them into an empty pocket in the money drawer. She felt as if she wanted to keep her first earnings forever. It seemed to her that she had never seen such precious-looking ...
— Maida's Little Shop • Inez Haynes Irwin
... to draw," Case rejoined, drinking again from the flask. His naturally red face had become livid, his skin moist, and ...
— The Last Trail • Zane Grey
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