例文・使い方で印象づける「drenching」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...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」
...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」
...We passed many villages during this drenching, one of which possessed a flock of sheep; and after six hours we came to a stand near the River Quango (lat...
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」
...Here arose the first cloud over my Baltimore prospects, the precursor of drenching rains and chilling blasts...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...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」
...A simple form of drenching tube(fig...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...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」
...Accordingly, many seized the opportunity of paying off oldscores by belabouring obnoxious persons, drenching them withice-cold water, and covering them with filth or hot ashes...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...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」
...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」
...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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