...Sir Percy had picked up the pewter mug from the table—it was half-filled with brackish water—and with a hand that trembled but slightly he hurled it straight at his opponent’s face...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...From having no outlet, the water is brackish, with hilly islands rising out of it...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...Sometimesthe water is sweetish, frequently brackish,and generally warm...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
...They delight in brackish water,and on more than one recent occasion, an excess of either saltwater or fresh has proved fatal to great numbers of them...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...It was brackish, but drinkable, and as Dick drank deeply of it he esteemed it at that moment better than nectar...
R.M. Ballantyne 「The Dog Crusoe and his Master」
...The ring-neck, and, in fact, the red-headare much more common on these waters than on thesalt or brackish marshes...
Harry Thom Payne 「Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast」
...The water was slightly brackish in taste...
Ernest Giles 「Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration」
...The flow of the water was to the north, and thecreek evidently went through a glen or pass; the timber grew thick andvigorous; the water had a slightly brackish taste...
Ernest Giles 「Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration」
...The water wasslightly brackish...
Ernest Giles 「Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration」
...Alechaving returned, we left Natta on the 14th, and went about north-east byeast, to a small brackish water in a little creek channel, which wereached in about fifteen miles...
Ernest Giles 「Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration」
...An old well was soon found, which was very shallow; thewater was slightly brackish and not more than three feet below thesurface...
Ernest Giles 「Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration」
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