rock-water

She has always been so much eclipsed by her sister, that I dare say she has signified this reconciliation to her with intermingled phlegm and wormwood; and her invitation must certainly runs all in the rock-water style.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

And here, while I am thus worthily waging war with beetles, drones, wasps, and hornets, and am all on fire with the rage of slighted love, thou art regaling thyself with phlegm and rock-water, and art going on with thy reformation-scheme and thy exultations in my misfortunes!

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

We know the transparency of the sea and that its clearness is far beyond that of rock-water.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

Sinners must be brought to great extremities, to make them desire the blood of Jesus; -- weary and thirsty, before rock-water come.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

If you never come into the wilderness, you shall never have rock-water.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

We know the transparency of the sea and that its clearness is far beyond that of rock-water.

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866

Soon after we started and were proceeding on our course, south 26 degrees west, from the rock-water, the natives all fell back and we saw no more of them.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

And here, while I am thus worthily waging war with beetles, drones, wasps, and hornets, and am all on fire with the rage of slighted love, thou art regaling thyself with phlegm and rock-water, and art going on with thy reformation-scheme and thy exultations in my misfortunes!

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 Samuel Richardson 1725

When he brought them out of Egypt, and led them through the deserts, they thirsted not (v. 21), for in all their removals the water out of the rock followed them; thence he caused the waters to flow, and, since rock-water is the clearest and finest, God clave the rock, and the waters gushed out; for he can fetch in necessary supplies for his people in a way that they think the least likely.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

The pleasures of sense are puddle-water; spiritual delights are rock-water, so pure, so clear, so refreshing -- rivers of pleasure.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721