moist

• If the saliva in which it is contained be kept moist, and not exposed to the direct sunlight and in a fairly warm place, it may survive as long as two weeks. —  Preventable Diseases
• The wind was soft and moist, and the light of the stars coming out in the east fell upon Ins upturned eyes with unspeakable majesty. —  A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen
• They were moist, and intensely black. —  My Doggie and I
• As he did so, he again remarked on the familiar English look of the materials, and was about to begin rubbing down a little of one of the cakes--moist colours had not been invented--when he observed some writing in red paint on the back of the palette. —  The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story
• Soon everything became moist, and a marked change took place in the appearance of the ice-belt, owing to the pools that collected on it everywhere and overflowed Seals now became more numerous in the neighbourhood, and were frequently killed near the atluks_, or holes; so that fresh meat was secured in abundance, and the scurvy received a decided check. —  The World of Ice

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