1 The warm damp balminess of spring encompassed her sweetly with the moist smells of new-plowed earth and all the fresh green things pushing up to the air.
2 Her face was damp and her body was already wet with sweat.
3 "Dey wuz sick wid disyere thing," Mammy gestured with her rag to the two naked girls, dripping with water on their damp sheet.
4 She went through the orchard under the bare boughs and the damp weeds beneath them wet her feet.
5 The wintry wind swept her damp ankles and she shivered again but her shiver was less from the wind than from the dread his words evoked in her heart.
6 He took her limp hand and pressed the damp clay into it and closed her fingers about it.
7 She stood in the doorway watching, the cold draft blowing her skirts about her damp ankles.
8 There was a close stuffy smell in the room, compounded of the smoking fire, tobacco fumes, leather, damp woolen uniforms and unwashed bodies.
9 She had evidently been standing there for some time, for her head rag was damp and the old shawl clutched tightly about her showed rain spots.
10 At least, her dress was whole and new, damp though it was--in fact, the only new dress at the gathering with the exception of Fanny's white-satin wedding gown.
11 "Get going," said Grandma, giving her a prod with her cane, and Mrs. Tarleton went toward the kitchen, throwing her hat carelessly on the sideboard and running her hands through her damp red hair.
12 She took the handkerchief and wiped her damp cheeks, a little relief stealing over her as if she had shifted some of her burden to his broad shoulders.
13 Mrs. Peniston thought the country lonely and trees damp, and cherished a vague fear of meeting a bull.
14 Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-venders; thus the captains to Zenobia; and in the damp cave over gnawed bones the hairy suitor thus protested to the woman advocate of matriarchy.
15 She had the impression that all the men had coarse voices, large damp hands, tooth-brush mustaches, bald spots, and Masonic watch-charms.