His hand came away wet.

There were wet dead leaves on the paving of the courtyard.

Eddy and Billy Tabeshaw had rocked the log out of the wet sand and rolled it toward the water.

The vineyards were thin and bare-branched too and all the country wet and brown and dead with the autumn.

Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on.

They walked up from the beach through a meadow that was soaking wet with dew, following the young Indian who carried a lantern.

Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.

There were mists over the river and clouds on the mountain and the trucks splashed mud on the road and the troops were muddy and wet in their capes; their rifles were wet and under their capes the two leather cartridge-boxes on the front of the belts, gray leather boxes heavy with the packs of clips of thin, long 6.5 mm. cartridges, bulged forward under the capes so that the men, passing on the road, marched as though they were six months gone with child.