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Examples
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Steve lost his wedding ring on our honeymoon, when the cold water of the Mediterranean shrunk his finger and it slipped off into the wat'ry abyss.
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Light galleys on the seas shall run a wat'ry race;
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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In circles, when they swim around the wat'ry race.
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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And soon with swelling sails pursue the wat'ry way.
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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And it's many the loyal seamen that met a wat'ry grave.
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The inhabitants of this wat'ry world seem to bid us welcome; the Sea appears quite populous, droves of porpuses, like flocks of Sheep, pass close by us.
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The Norse viking no longer plows the unknown wave, his heart wilder than the wat'ry waste, his arm stronger than tempered steel: He comes to America and starts a saloon.
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Or chasms and wat'ry depths; all these have vanished;
Nature Mysticism John Edward Mercer 1889
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Hail, King of the wat'ry world, New Neptune, grander than the old,
The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World Paul Boyton 1881
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Me y-eye done bin-a come wat'ry so long tam befo 'I bin talky wit' you
Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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