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1 1| highest duty to fodder and water his horses! What is his 2 1| of palatable grass, with water to drink; unless he seeks 3 1| dark-colored and saturated with water. There were some slight 4 1| striped snake run into the water, and he lay on the bottom, 5 1| and salt; and my drink, water. It was fit that I should 6 1| because he took to drinking water only.~ ~ 7 1| meal into the trough, add water gradually, and knead it 8 1| probably drink the less water. I do not learn that the 9 1| who had slipped into the water came to my house to warm 10 3| August, when, both air and water being perfectly still, but 11 3| darkened by clouds, the water, full of light and reflections, 12 3| It is well to have some water in your neighborhood, to 13 3| small sheet of interverting water, and I was reminded that 14 5| making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled 15 5| draught of the once scorned water, and passes round the cup 16 5| straightway comes over the water from some distant cove the 17 6| rippling wind from over the water. Sympathy with the fluttering 18 6| the willow stands near the water and sends out its roots 19 7| throw two stones into calm water so near that they break 20 7| afford any beverage beside water? He had soaked hemlock leaves 21 7| soaked hemlock leaves in water and drank it, and thought 22 7| thought that was better than water in warm weather. When I 23 7| calling, asked for a glass of water. I told them that I drank 24 8| the dews and rains which water this dry soil, and what 25 8| the echoes over that very water. The pines still stand here 26 8| more genial to it, which water and make it green. These 27 10| making a fire close to the water's edge, which we thought 28 10| anchored in forty feet of water, and twenty or thirty rods 29 10| hills rise abruptly from the water to the height of forty to 30 10| covered with snow, both water and ice were almost as green 31 10| to be the color of pure water, whether liquid or solid." 32 10| Yet a single glass of its water held up to the light is 33 10| How large a body of Walden water would be required to reflect 34 10| I have never proved. The water of our river is black or 35 10| yellowish tinge; but this water is of such crystalline purity 36 10| The water is so transparent that the 37 10| of the holes, where the water was twenty-five feet deep. 38 10| leap will carry you into water over your head; and were 39 10| extend a rod or two into the water, and then the bottom is 40 10| passed away, and still its water is green and pellucid as 41 10| It is a gem of the first water which Concord wears in her 42 10| approaching and receding from the water's edge, as old probably 43 10| into it, with very deep water on one side, on which I 44 10| seven feet; and yet the water shed by the surrounding 45 10| fifteen years hence the water will again be as low as 46 10| serves this use at least; the water standing at this great height 47 10| shore is cleanest when the water is lowest. On the side of 48 10| from time to time. When the water is at its height, the alders, 49 10| sides of their stems in the water, and to the height of three 50 10| four months in the year its water is as cold as it is pure 51 10| town. In the winter, all water which is exposed to the 52 10| temperature of the pond water which had stood in the room 53 10| one degree colder than the water of one of the coldest wells 54 10| or the warmest of any water tried, though it is the 55 10| shallow and stagnant surface water is not mingled with it. 56 10| becomes so warm as most water which is exposed to the 57 10| needs only bury a pail of water a few feet deep in the shade 58 10| most other ponds, as the water is purer, and they can easily 59 10| on a white pine over the water; but I doubt if it is ever 60 10| eastern, shore where the water is eight or ten feet deep, 61 10| hills which rise from the water's edge; for the water in 62 10| the water's edge; for the water in which it is reflected 63 10| ample room to expand on the water side, and each sends forth 64 10| man's hand to be seen. The water laves the shore as it did 65 10| another where it strikes the water; sometimes the whole silvery 66 10| yet smoother and darker water, separated from the rest 67 10| invisible cobweb, boom of the water nymphs, resting on it. From 68 10| off; for they furrow the water slightly, making a conspicuous 69 10| assuaged, as, when a vase of water is jarred, the trembling 70 10| surface of the earth. Sky water. It needs no fence. Nations 71 10| A field of water betrays the spirit that 72 10| and trees wave, but the water itself is rippled by the 73 10| bronze color in the green water, sporting there, and constantly 74 10| and seemingly bottomless water, reflecting the clouds, 75 10| as if one had struck the water with a brushy bough, and 76 10| than before, half out of water, a hundred black points, 77 10| would go back into deep water and disappear. I was pleased 78 10| as it were, fell into the water, to float there for a generation, 79 10| over the trees next the water and formed bowers under 80 10| through which you see the water. My Muse may be excused 81 10| are thinking to bring its water, which should be as sacred 82 10| itself unchanged, the same water which my youthful eyes fell 83 10| no guile! He rounded this water with his hand, deepened 84 10| Are its water and its sand,~ ~ 85 10| nuts were dropping into the water and were washed to my feet; 86 10| wader by the pressure of the water, and the rushes which grew 87 10| back and forth in shallow water on a sandy bottom, and are 88 10| farm abutted on this sky water, whose shores he has ruthlessly 89 10| with Concord River, are my water privileges; and night and 90 10| above the surface in deep water, many rods from the shore. 91 10| latter may be seen, when the water is very low, a tree which 92 10| below the surface of the water; the top of this tree is 93 10| from the shore, where the water was thirty or forty feet 94 10| surface, they look like huge water snakes in motion.~ ~ 95 10| grows thinly in the pure water, rising from the stony bottom 96 10| harmony with the glaucous water.~ ~ 97 11| standing up to my middle in water, I found myself suddenly 98 11| culinary vessel was selected, water was seemingly distilled, 99 12| I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the same reason 100 12| drunkenness. I believe that water is the only drink for a 101 13| into life for me. I have water from the spring, and a loaf 102 13| good sport there if the water be not too high.~ ~ 103 13| made a well of clear gray water, where I could dip up a 104 13| rippling the surface of the water, so that no loon can be 105 13| I went to get a pail of water early in the morning I frequently 106 13| that, he cooly surveyed the water and the land, and apparently 107 13| was the widest expanse of water and at the greatest distance 108 13| his course as surely under water as on the surface, and swam 109 13| commonly hear the splash of the water when he came up, and so 110 13| and the smoothness of the water were all against him. At 111 13| know, unless they love its water for the same reason that 112 14| of a promontory, next the water. Ah, many a tale their color 113 14| and how many pailfuls of water it takes to christen a new 114 14| insect on the surface of the water, and study the bottom at 115 14| behind a glass, and the water is necessarily always smooth 116 14| dark, that is, you see the water through it. These bubbles 117 14| dark green color of the water, and the bottom, but opaque 118 14| partition there between the water and the bubble, hardly an 119 14| pitch, being confined by the water, burned longer, as in a 120 15| natural advantages - no water privileges, forsooth? Ay, 121 16| he appears to know that water will not retain his scent. 122 16| once every year when the water was warmest, and at such 123 17| pail and go in search of water, if that be not a dream. 124 17| little hole to admit the water, I am always surprised by 125 17| or crystals of the Walden water. They, of course, are Walden 126 17| so much harder before the water got underneath to help me. 127 17| describes as "a bay of salt water, sixty or seventy fathoms 128 17| this, but the effect of water under these circumstances 129 17| and valley and gorge deep water and channel.~ ~ 130 17| their mouths and deeper water within, so that the bay 131 17| tended to be an expansion of water within the land not only 132 17| compared with its length, the water over the bar was deeper 133 17| be found, for where the water flows into the pond it will 134 17| cavity under ten feet of water; but I think that I can 135 17| under a slight wind like water. It is well known that a 136 17| three or four inches of water on the ice under a deep 137 17| sunk it thus far; but the water began immediately to run 138 17| of the pond; for, as the water ran in, it raised and floated 139 17| bottom of a ship to let the water out. When such holes freeze, 140 17| the channels worn by the water flowing from all sides to 141 17| the sand, or rather the water - for it was a very springy 142 17| Like the water, the Walden ice, seen near 143 17| Walden which in the state of water was green will often, when 144 17| be filled with a greenish water somewhat like its own, but 145 17| Perhaps the blue color of water and ice is due to the light 146 17| Why is it that a bucket of water soon becomes putrid, but 147 17| the pure sea-green Walden water there, reflecting the clouds 148 17| book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the 149 17| tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant 150 17| his servant come to draw water for his master, and our 151 17| same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred 152 17| mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges. With favoring 153 18| break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even 154 18| indicates better than any water hereabouts the absolute 155 18| from the shore, in shallow water, under ice a foot thick, 156 18| temperature of the deep water and the shallow in the latter 157 18| perceived how much warmer the water is close to the shore, where 158 18| from the bottom in shallow water, and so also warms the water 159 18| water, and so also warms the water and melts the under side 160 18| angles with what was the water surface. Where there is 161 18| experiment at Cambridge to freeze water in a shallow wooden pond, 162 18| generally speaking, the shallow water is being warmed more rapidly 163 18| sensibly worn away by the water, nor broken up and floated 164 18| honeycombed and saturated with water, so that you could put your 165 18| smooth and warm sheet of water, with a muddy bottom, such 166 18| till at length, in the water itself, they are converted 167 18| silicious matter which the water deposits is perhaps the 168 18| to behold this ribbon of water sparkling in the sun, the 169 19| The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise