Wast Water

/ wɒst /

noun

1. a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 5 km (3 miles)

Example Sentences

Behind him he knew, he felt, were the mountains that he loved, stretching crag upon crag to the desolate screes of Wast Water and the glimpse of the shimmering sea.

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K. L. M. wast water, which is so much impregnated with Mercury, that it cureth Itches and sordid Ulcers.

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While in this district the tourist will derive pleasure from visiting Crummock Water, Lowes Water, and Wast Water.

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Less stern than Wast Water, less fair than gentle Windermere, she had still the winning ways of an English lake; she caught from the smiling heavens unceasing light and changeful phases of beauty, and with all this brightness on her face, she yet clung so fondly to the dull he-looking mountain at her side, as though she would “Soothe him with her finer fancies, Touch him with her lighter thought.”

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