...By day, we lay and slept in the drenching heather; by night, incessantly clambered upon break-neck hills and among rude crags... 
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...I wish to Heaven we could have somegood old drenching spring rain...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...He gave us a good drenching with gas shells whichdidn’t do much harm, and then messed up our forward zone with his trenchmortars...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...They paddle away, dashing up the water whenever they succeed in coming near each other, and delighting in drenching the travellers with the spray...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...—Caught in a drenching rain, which made me fain tosit, exhausted as I was, under an umbrella for an hour trying to keepthe trunk dry...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...Our weight caused the frail bark to sit so deep in the water, that, before reaching the ship, we underwent another drenching...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...Both dashed off at a rapid pace, through a drenching storm, with such a pall-like darkness that they could not see each other...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle」
...Indrenching, a long-necked bottle or a drenching tube may be used...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...The drenching of the Pfingstl with water and his wading upto the middle into the brook are, therefore, no doubt rain-charmslike those which have been already described...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Certainly the customof drenching with water a leaf-clad person, who undoubtedlypersonifies vegetation, is still resorted to in Europe for theexpress purpose of producing rain...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The custom of drenching people on this occasion withwater used to prevail in Toulon, as well as in Marseilles and othertowns in the south of France...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...But the bowl, filled to the brim by its greasy, scalding hot contents,flew in a sweeping parabola, tipping as it fell, so that the entirecontents cascaded on Gore, drenching him from head to foot...
Roman Frederick Starzl 「In the Orbit of Saturn」
...FamousPuritan preachers boast of lying on a floor all night and drenching thecarpet with their tears...
Dr. D.M. Brooks 「The Necessity of Atheism」
...He had learnt to hate the famousclimate—the dust and drought and brazen skies; the drenching rains andbottomless mud—to rebel against the interminable hours he was doomedto spend in his buggy...
Henry Handel Richardson 「Australia Felix」
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