I fear a high wind, because storm demands that exertion of strength and use of action I always yield with pain; but the sullen down-fall, the thick snow-descent, or dark rush of rain, ask only resignation—the quiet abandonment of garments and person to be drenched.
The harbor was lying black and sullen under a dour November sky; the wet, dead leaves clung drenched and sodden to the window sills; but the little house was gay with firelight and spring-like with Anne's ferns and geraniums.
"I feel as if it might catch me and whisk me leagues out to sea," said Anne, as one drenched them with radiance; and she felt rather relieved when they got so near the Point that they were inside the range of those dazzling, recurrent flashes.
But the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed; excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawlless to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes.
The door and windows were immediately closed, or everything in the rooms would have been drenched.
The reporter and his companions remained thus for a few minutes, overwhelmed by the wind, drenched by the rain, blinded by the sand.
Everything in camp was drenched, the campfire as well; for they were but heedless lads, like their generation, and had made no provision against rain.
The window went up, a maid-servant's discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr's remains!
A few weeks ago, scientists at Ukraine's Vernadsky Research Base in Antarctica awoke to find their usually pristine white surrounds drenched in a shocking blood-red.
The third, drenched in buffalo sauce.
The iconic dish consists of crispy, golden fries topped with cheese curds and drenched in gravy.
You mutter words like "deterministic" or "innovativity" and you realize you're drenched in sweat.
: Proctor(exceedingly angry):So you confess that this unfortunate freshman was carried to this frog pond and drenched?
I also Xiusi principals, why he can stage a flag-raising ceremony Monday speech, we should be below drenched.
Many took to Twitter to show off their drenched appearances after their show, sporting waterproof ponchos, soaked through t-shirts and smudged makeup.
During her first week of record-keeping,she realized that the two or three doughnut holes she thought she ate were actually eight or nine; that her lunchtime salad was really lettuce and tomatoes drenched in creamy salad dressing;that her"occasional" midafternoon candy bar was actually a daily dose; and that after a big dinner with her family, she nibbled on leftovers while clearing up.
It followed a sequence of functions: a machine cuts cloth panels to be sewn, the panels are drenched with the polymer and stiffened, a robotic arm uses suction cups to lift each panel and position it in the sewing machine.
: Austrian Kaiser Franz Joseph I was particularly fond of fluffy pancakes, but he had to have them shredded up into little pieces and drenched in a fruit sauce.
He was completely drenched by the rain.
I cannot tell what power is at work, drenched there with purpose, knowing nothing.
