Moist

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_Preferred Habitat_ -- Moist, rocky woods, or dry woods and thickets.

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  • Moist, actually; you had two throwaway towelettes moistened with something like rubbing alcohol—one of them for the “pits and naughty bits,” as Elspeth said, and the other for your face and the rest of your body. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2008
  • Ingredients: 1 box Yellow Cake Mix (Betty Crocker Super Moist is my favorite) 1 small box of Strawberry Jello, 1 small box of instant Jello Vanilla Pudding, 4 ounces of cream cheese —  The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines
  • The following list of daily announcements by the several sonorous claimants on the public attention, may not be unacceptable with their translated accompaniments Seepie wallah deelie sukha'[12] (Moist or dry cuppers).--Moist and dry cupping is performed both by men and women; the latter are most in request. —  Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society
  • So we see that the concepts Dry and Moist, as they lived in the old picturing of them, mean a good deal more than we understand by them to-day That these two respective attributes do not belong exclusively to the solid and the liquid states of matter can be seen at once by observing the different reactions of certain liquids to a solid surface which they touch. —  Man or Matter
  • Above her head, its leaf the aspen shook-- Moist as her cheek, and pallid as her look Full five months pass'd, ere she, 'mid night and gloom, Brought forth with pain an infant from her womb: They baptiz'd it, at midnight's murky hour, Lest it should fall within the demon's power. —  Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces
 

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