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The latter spent most of his time out at soak in pale-green snow storms, busy with a nickel-plated revolver, rescuing aged strangers from villains.
well they are not cows--it would soak in and ruin the milk.
A LAMP, soaked with too much oil and flaring brightly, boasted that it gave more light than the sun.
Then I took it on an empty stomach, too, and there was them three soaks setting me an example, they arguing for me to take the Flibberty to Poonga-Poonga, an' me pointing out my duty to the contrary.
It's the three soaked biscuits ye eat for supper turning over inside of ye --nothing else.
A chilly blast hums in the taut rigging, causing the ship to tremble to her very keel, and the soaked men on her decks to shiver in their wet clothes to the very marrow of their bones.
"Dog-cheap is what I call it, when I think of the small rooms I've ben soaked for," was Billy's judgment.
I soaked in the cool air, rode horseback, and did my thousand words a day save when the fever shock came in the morning.
Cecily put her hair up in curl-papers that night, thoroughly soaked in Judy Pineau's curling-fluid.
The mimic royalty on the stage, with their soaked satins clinging to their bodies, slopped about ankle-deep in water, warbling their sweetest and best, the fiddlers under the eaves of the state sawed away for dear life, with the cold overflow spouting down the backs of their necks, and the dry and happy King sat in his lofty box and wore his gloves to ribbons applauding.
Yes, when a fellow's soaked through, it's hard to be sensible, that's a fact.
Now, with la Esmeralda dead, the sponge was soaked, all was at an end on this earth for Dom Claude.