[…] as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight themoisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth.
The sage—low-growing and shrubby—could hold its place on the mountain slopes and on the plains, and within its small gray leaves it could holdmoisture enough to defy the thieving winds.
1631,Francis [Bacon], “IV. Century.”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries.[…], 3rd edition, London:[…]William Rawley[…];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee[…],→OCLC,page84:
[…] allExclusion ofOpen Aire, (which is euer Predatory) maintaineth the Body in his first Freshnesse, andMoisture:
Such was the discord, which did first disperse Forme, order, beauty through the universe; While drynessemoisture, coldnesse heat resists, All that we have, and that we are subsists:
