But when I plead, she bids me play my part, And when I weep, she says tears are but water: And when I sigh, she says I know the art, And when I wail, she turns herself to laughter.

-Spenser, Edmund
  Amoretti, sonnet18.

He may be more potent than any other man. The damnable iteration dayafter day of earnest conviction wears like the dropping of the water upon the stone.

-Stead,WilliamThomas
  Of the journalist.'Government by journalism', in the Contemporary Review, May. Collected in A Journalist on Journalism (1892).

'In about half a mile you cross the river by an Irish bridgeö' 'Whatever is that?' 'It'sjust a bridge, but built under thewater instead ofover it.' 'Extremely sensible.'

-Stewart,John Innes Mackintosh
  A FamilyAffair.

The Church's one foundation Is Jesus Christ, her Lord; She is his new creation By water and the word; From heaven he came and sought her To be his holy bride, With his own blood he bought her. And for her life he died.

-Stone, Samuel John
  Lyra fidelium.

   I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church, to preserve all that travel by land, or by water. 832

-Swift,Jonathan
  Polite Conversation, dialogue 2.

On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Laya great water, and the moon was full.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'The Passing of Arthur', l.179^80.

'A chilli,'said Rebecca, gasping,'Oh, yes!' She thought a chilli wassomething cool, asitsname imported, and was served with some.'How fresh and green they look,'she said, and put one into her mouth. It was hotter than the curry; flesh and blood could bear it no longer. She laid down her fork.'Water, for Heaven's sake, water!'she cried.

-Thackeray,William Makepeace
^8  Vanity Fair, ch.3

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself inThee, Let the water and the blood, From thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.

-Toplady, Augustus Montague
  Hymn.

I just led them to the wateröand they drank copiously.

-Torrance, Sam
  On his victorious European Ryder Cup team. In TheTimes, 28 Dec.

   That vessel in which the powers of steam are to be employed to work the engine, which is called the Cylinder in common fire engines, and which I call the SteamVessel, must, during the whole time the engine is at work, be kept ashot asthesteamthat entersit; first, by enclosing it ina case of wood, oranyother materialsthat transmit heat slowly; secondly, by surrounding it with steam or other heated bodies; and thirdly, by suffering neither water noranyother substance colder thansteam to enter and touch it during that time.

-Watt,James
  Specification of patent, 5 Jan, for a new method of lessening the consumption of steam and fuel in fire engines.

Fabulous the insects Stud the air Or walk on running water, Klee-drawn saints And bright as angels are.

-Wilkinson, Anne
  The HangmanTies the Holly,'InJune and Gentle Oven'.

   An open place it was, and overlooked, From high, the sullen water far beneath, On which a dull red image of the moon Lay bedded, changing oftentimes its form Like an uneasy snake.

-Wordsworth,William
^1805  The Prelude, bk.6, l.703^7 (published1850).

Then, the calm And dead still water lay upon my mind Even with a weight of pleasure, and the sky, Never before so beautiful, sankdown Into my heart, and held me like a dream.

-Wordsworth,William
^1805  The Prelude, bk.2, l.70^4 (published1850).

Rose of all Roses,Rose of all the World! The tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled Above the tide of hours, trouble the air, And God's bell buoyed to be the water's care.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'The Rose of Battle', l.1^4. Collected in The Rose (1893).