What is "passing water"

Usage examples of "passing water".

If I stood with my back to a wall, pressed into a corner, dead motionless, breathing as noiselessly as a fish passing water through its gills, I was still certain to give myself away.

But he is not passing water properly, and his physician thinks he is in danger of growing dropsical.

That mixture should send a man to Hell faster than passing water on the pope!

Julius dunked a bucket in the passing water and sluiced the afterdeck yet again.

IN THE FREE-FALL ENVIRONMENT PLANTS CAN SPREAD THEIR GREENERY WIDELY TO CATCH MAXIMUM SUNLIGHT AND PASSING WATER AND SOIL, WITHOUT BOTHERING ABOUT STRUCTURAL STRENGTH.

To be shy about passing water in this place was of course absurd and she knew it, but she was still a woman of the Fifth, however many miracles she'd seen.

Perhaps - so he compelled himself to believe - there might be some slight chance that a passing water-king would pick up the transmission and amplify it.

Their chief form of pleasure came from terrorizing the helpless citizenry with cruel bullying that ranged from passing water in public to throwing acid.

Julie glanced over the side of the dinghy, where her bare toes trailed in the gently-passing water.

And the passing water, and the resiliencies of the rock, had created forms fantastical enough to seem the sculpture of some alien art.

The rush of the passing water filled the hold with a rumbling roar.

He turned and looked down at the passing water and, after a long pause, muttered very slowly.

Not far away, near the edge of the rushing water, stood a large cottonwood, listing and swaying as the pressure of the passing water tore at its roots.