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Make water   /meɪk wˈɔtər/   Listen
Make water

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"Make water" Quotes from Famous Books



... on an ordinary night, and I showed Fred where I had heard and seen the girls make water. Laura I got to like, and she to like me which led to something at a later date. In about three weeks or more I went back to my aunt's, through an indefinable longing to poke in a quiet intriguing ...
— My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. - 1888 Edition • Anonymous

... nearly a century ago, pointed out the psychic element in the experiences of young persons who wetted the bed, Venus sine Concubitu, 1816, p. 47.) Thus, in one case known to me, a child of seven, who occasionally wetted the bed, usually dreamed at the same time that she wanted to make water, and was out of doors, running to find a suitable spot, which she at last found, and, on awaking, discovered that she had wetted the bed; fifteen years later she still sometimes had similar dreams, which caused her much alarm until, ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... nitrogen and oxygen," continued Harry. "Water requires only a very low heat to make it boil in an exhausted receiver, out of which the air has been pumped, so as to leave none to press upon its surface. Owing to boiling depending upon pressure, you can actually make water ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 • Various

... purchasing power until in 1779 a dollar was worth only two or three cents in gold or silver. Attempts were made by Congress and the states to compel people to accept the notes at face value; but these were like attempts to make water flow uphill. Speculators collected at once to fatten on the calamities of the republic. Fortunes were made and lost gambling on the prices of public securities while the patriot army, half clothed, was freezing at Valley Forge. ...
— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

... put fire light when bear go, leady for make water velly hot," said the little Chinaman, dolefully; "fire lun along ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn


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