clear water

• “Jeremy led Costas along the beach until they came to the source of the sandbar, a channel of extraordinarily clear water about three metres wide that cut through the jungle and flowed into the sea.”

  Crusader Gold

• “In the clear water of Brammo Bay, a greenish black object, a yard across by about a yard and a half long, moved slowly along, swaying this way and that, but maintaining a fairly accurate course consistent with the shore.”

  The Confessions of a Beachcomber

• ““The Tapajoz here is clear water with a sandy beach, and the bathing is luxurious; we bathe here in the middle of the day, when dripping with perspiration, and you can have no idea of the excessive luxury of it.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Song of The Dodo

• “To muddy, from the metaphor of beclouding clear water with earth, thereby to make turbid and obscure vision, now has the extended sense of “to confuse.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “In melted sun he paused for a while above Kamena Voura, swam in the clear water looking across the narrow strait to Euboea; there must the thousand ships have sailed from Aulis, on their way to Troy.”

  The Thorn Birds

• “When they reached the narrow bar, Sharon dismounted and let the horse bury its muzzle in the cool, clear water and suck in the liquid in noisy slurps.”

  Simon & Schuster: Western Man

• “She took the bucket to the far end of the cavern and dumped it on the floor, then sluiced down the spot with clear water from one of the waterskins — piss-poor hygiene (to coin a phrase), but the best she could manage.”

  The Warslayer

• “Finally the water came, stuttering and spraying in a frigid rainbow mist from the half-clogged spout, propelled by gouts of bright clear water that even smelled cold.”

  The Warslayer

• “The dirt and other solids in the canal water settled to the bottom of the zir, so that the resulting clear water appeared to be pure.”

  Simon & Schuster: Diffusion of Innovations

• “The crewman found a patch of clear water and opened the throttle wide, planing the Zodiac in a wide arc towards the rocky promontory that marked the northern edge of the fjord.”

  Crusader Gold

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