...I wish to Heaven we could have somegood old drenching spring rain...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...A thunder-shower descending completed the partial drenching of the plain, and gave a cold, uncomfortable "packing in a wet blanket" that night...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The other boys now revive, and I hustle them about to make more fires,no easy work in the drenching rain, but work that has got to be done...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...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」
...A simple form of drenching tube(fig...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...The days were dim and the nights long,and thick, drenching mists hung overthe gloomy river...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...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 drenching with water is doubtless a rain-charm...
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.」
...Dawn showed us no respite of the drenching rain; the paths, the garden,and the camps were all flooded with the continuous rain of yesterday andlast night, and still it poured...
Various 「Argentina From A British Point Of View」
...Through all the years stands the little man with a gooseunder either arm, patiently receiving his daily drenching...
Jennie Ellis Keysor 「Great Artists, Vol 1.」
...With the speed ofthought, the American kicked it to the landing below, where itexploded, annihilating a detachment of Jarmuthians by drenching themwith the terrible fungus gas...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...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」
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