When his first wife failed to satisfy him, he married a second, Jane, and when she proved a wet blanket he turned to other women, with her consent.
"It proved a wet, ungenial summer", Mary Shelley remembered in 1831, "and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house".
They spent the summer months with the Romantic poet Lord Byron, but, as Mary Shelley later wrote of the year without a summer, "[i]t proved a wet, ungenial summer and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house".
The Swans once again proved their wet-weather credentials with the 11.13 (79) to 6.5 (41) victory on Saturday night.
Rayon was used in the 1920s in the manufacture of tight-fitting swimsuits, but its durability, especially when wet, proved problematic, with jersey and silk also sometimes being used.
Once, a specially designed swimming costume proved so heavy when wet that it dragged her to the bottom of the pool.
Freud proved something of a wet blanket, disdaining the sailor outfit worn by Putnam's teenage cousin and lagging on the group's vigorous hikes.
With their gun ports only 1.88 m above the waterline, they proved to be very wet.
In service, Rochambeau proved to be very wet and threw up a lot of spray in a head sea.
She proved to be rather wet in service as she was bow-heavy because of her superimposed turrets forward.
