Fresh-water

Fresh-water economics, on the other hand, asserts generally that free markets almost always outsmart government intervention, that strategies of pump-priming and punch-bowl-hiding are apt to fail the second time around, and that the best fine-tuning is no fine-tuning.

Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

Fresh-water springs: WAR, Report of the Chief Engineer, June 5, 1871, p.

The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

Fresh-water streams, colored as yesterday, and the trail of an alligator from one of them to the sea.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

Fresh-water fish has often a muddy taste, to take off which, soak it in strong salt and water; or, if of a size to bear it, give it a scald in the same, after extremely good cleaning and washing.

A Poetical Cook-Book Maria J. Moss

Fresh-water molluscs are unknown, and near the coast the marine fauna is not rich; but terrestrial molluscs abound, several species being peculiar to the Azores.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

"Fresh-water anglers are rather particular on the point."

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

The _Taclobo_ sea-shell is sometimes found weighing up to about 180 lbs. Fresh-water fish is almost flavourless and little appreciated.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

Fresh-water and salt-loving plants generally have very wide ranges and are much diffused, but this seems to be connected with the nature of the stations inhabited by them, and has little or no relation to the size of the genera to which the species belong.

II. Variation under Nature. Species of the Larger Genera in Each Country Vary More Frequently Than the Species of the Smaller Genera 1909

Fresh-water fish, I find, eat seeds of many land and water plants; fish are frequently devoured by birds, and thus the seeds might be transported from place to place.

XII. Geographical Distribution. Means of Dispersal 1909

Fresh-water lagoons and sluggish streams were bordered by low forests of palms and ferns; one must go to the tropics to find a corresponding landscape in our times.

The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903