He crops his hair, and, I should think, wets it two or three times a day for fear people should see that it has a natural wave in it.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
France was ripe for Constable at that memorable Salon of 1824, simple, straight-seeing Constable, who painted his Suffolk parish, not the tumbling ruins of Italy, and who showed that "the sun shines, that the wind blows, that water wets, and that air and light are everywhere."
"Constable"
C. Lewis Hind
I don't know-and every few minutes the spray comes over and wets the paper and incidentally myself.
"Olivia in India"
O. Douglas