sweet water

Noun

Meaning

sweet water (countable and uncountable, plural sweet waters)

(uncommon) Fresh water.

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Examples

Wisdom ... never closes her school of thought but always opens her doors to those who thirst for the sweet water of discourse, and pouring on them an unstinted stream of undiluted doctrine, persuades them to be drunken with the drunkenness which is soberness itself. Philo

Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere? Rumi

A man standing by a spring of clear, sweet water and cursing it. While the fresh water keeps on bubbling up. He can shovel mud into it, or dung, and the stream will carry it away, wash itself clean, remain unstained. (Hays translation) Marcus Aurelius

For centuries sweet water artesian wells in the Fayyum Oasis have permitted extensive cultivation in an irrigated area that extends over convert. Source: Internet

There is a clear, sweet water in the middle of that marrowy substance which is very refreshing. Source: Internet

They were commonly carried by Spanish ships as a source of sweet water. Source: Internet

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