I couldn't believe that I really saw the rope floating its whole length on the water, dry at first, then darkening wetly.
"Us and the Bottleman"
Edith Ballinger Price
The darkness had now been exchanged for a sort of semi-gloom, in which the almost black rock gleamed wetly where the hurrying current of the stream had washed its base.
"The Border Boys Across the Frontier"
Fremont B. Deering
She stopped a moment beneath the gently dripping trees and took off her knitted cap and shook it dry, for she had inadvertently brushed against an overhanging branch on which last summer's leaves still wetly clung.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim