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Meanings of live on water in English

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Usage of live on water in English
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She seemed to live on water and the air-perhaps, indeed, on love.
Desert Gold
2
Second, During acute illness fast, that is, live on water.
Maintaining Health (Formerly Health and Efficiency)
3
If ill, eat nothing, but live on water.
Maintaining Health (Formerly Health and Efficiency)
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Looks like he lived on water-crackers and milk, his skin's that white.
The Tides of Barnegat
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At that time, most residents lived on water or land that was regularly inundated.
Reuters
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He lived on water until the day of his death.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Here he lives on water-weeds and dead leaves.
Friends and Helpers
8
This curious animal lives on water plants.
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
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Joe owned a pet calf about a week old which lived on water and a long rope.
On Our Selection
10
He Lives on Water.
The Plunderer
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It is found living on water plants, the snails being of all sizes, from that of a mustard seed to a walnut.
The Naturalist on the Thames
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"Am I an eel?" he roared, "that I should live on water-grass, and red gravel?"
The People of the Mist
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"Fish live on water, not on air," he replied in a knowing voice, and sat down.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Lamb found, on inquiry, that he had latterly been living on water-gruel, and a low starving diet, and readily divined the cause of his maladies.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
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