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Wells

noun

Prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946). Synonyms: H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wells.

Well

noun

A deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine.

A cavity or vessel used to contain liquid.

An abundant source. Synonyms: fountainhead, wellspring.

An open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway).

An enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps.

verb

(past & past part. welled; pres. part. welling)

Come up, as of a liquid. Synonym: swell. "The currents well up"

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"Wells" Quotes from Famous Books

... stand here by the windy orchard in the cross-ways nigh the grey sea-shore, giving rest on the way to wearied men; and the fountain wells forth cold stainless water. ...

— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology • J. W. Mackail

... firing he was right on the spot. Of course with our gun going so much of the time Fritzie came back with everything he had, but he never could find out where we really were. The greatest drawback to our new position was the lack of water. Before the Germans retired they had filled all the wells with barbed wire. The Germans tried to gas us out, and sometimes they would pelt us with gas shells; all night long we had to sleep with our gas masks on. On the whole, our position here was much better than what we were used ...

— Into the Jaws of Death • Jack O'Brien

... never seen a handsomer man than Tom Sueter," wrote Nyren—lived to be 77; "Shock" White, with his bat as broad as his stumps, "a short and rather stoutly-made man," was buried at Reigate, aged 91; Yalden of Chertsey,—he jumped over a fence and then on his back caught the ball—was 84; and John Wells, buried at Farnham, died at the age of 76. John Wells shared with "Silver Billy" a curious distinction. He was Beldham's brother-in-law, and an admiring publican at Wrecclesham put up a sign to draw ...

— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker

... October, 1834: "There is a lady here" (at Tunbridge Wells), "who plays most beautifully. I think I never heard such a touch—why, I cannot make out, for she has not long fingers to be brilliant. So you must set yourself to rival her. It would be interesting to examine the causes of expression, ...

— Cardinal Newman as a Musician • Edward Bellasis

... other—inasmuch as easier access would be gained by an invader, even by the dangerous and difficult navigation of the Red Sea, than by a march through a region where the means of subsistence do not exist, and where the Bedoweens, by choking or concealing the wells, might in a moment cut off even the scanty supply of water which the country affords. This mode of passive resistance was well understood and practised by them as early as the time of AElius Gallus, the first Roman ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - April 1843 • Various

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