"Unmoistened" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a plaintive wildness in the air not to be withstood; and, except the keeper's, there was not an unmoistened eye around her. ...
— The Man of Feeling • Henry Mackenzie
... celebrated sciences. But the penury of their private affairs so oppresses them, being opposed by adverse fortune, that the fruitful seeds of virtue, so productive in the unexhausted field of youth, unmoistened by their wonted dews, are compelled to wither. Whence it happens, as Boetius says, that bright virtue lies hid in obscurity, and the burning lamp is not put under a bushel, but is utterly extinguished for want of oil. Thus the flowery field in spring is ploughed up ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton |
