68 collocations for drenches

"Long swoln in drenching rains, seeds, germs, and buds Start at the touch of vivifying beams.

The deep, dark clouds are yonder massed, And rain has drenched fields drear and dun, But o'er the farthest hills at last I see the sun!

So often had the savages drenched the earth with blood, that the child had a dread of them.

It is as if some one were to come and tell you that henceforth the air would always be still on the plain, and the wind would never more dance across it with blustering breezes and drenching showers.

Within its folds was a mammoth condenser, contracting to drench the land impartially, incessantly, for sixty days or more.

The flutter of his leathern wings, and the plash of water in the dark, where a coolie still drenched the flags, marked the sleepy, soothing measures in a nocturne, broken at strangely regular intervals by a shot, and the crack of a bullet somewhere above in the deserted chambers.

112. 'With his own hand the guardian of the bees, For slips of pines may search the mountain trees, And with wild thyme and sav'ry plant the plain, Till his hard horny fingers ache with pain; And deck with fruitful trees the fields around, And with refreshing waters drench the ground.' (Dryden).

When I emerged from the hood of the companionway I found a high wind was drenching the deck with spray and everything was black and wet and slippery.

I did not sleep, but drenched my pillow with tears.

Lanyard removed it, turned her over so that she lay supine, wedged silken pillows from the chaise-longue beneath her head and shoulders, then reached across her body, took from her dressing table a toilet-water flask of lovely Italian glass, and drenched her face and bosom with its pungent contents.

Stifling nights followed sultry, drenching days, till vegetation everywhere sprouted unwholesomely and the mountain slopes had almost the reek of tropic jungles.

We lef' de ole plantation, We trabbled de Norf lan' thro; Chilled by de winds in Winter, In Summer drenched wid dew; But we neber cum to Canaan, Nor found de promised lan', And back to de ole plantation We cum a broken ban'.

Our tub of a ship rolled like a swing, drenching the whimpering dogs at every lurch, and hurling everything on board into confusion.

It is not ideal for a sick man to spend the hottest hours of the day stretched on the boxes in the bottom of a small open dugout, under the well-nigh intolerable heat of the torrid sun of the mid-tropics, varied by blinding, drenching downpours of rain; but I could not be sufficiently grateful for the chance.

Thoroughly drenched already, and eager to resent their wrongs, a half-dozen of the soldiers, led on by a corporal, the coating of whose powdered poll had been converted into a sort of paste by too great an intimacy with a bucket of water, essayed to mount the rigging; an exploit to them much more arduous than to enter a breach.

The deep, dark clouds are yonder massed, And rain has drenched fields drear and dun, But o'er the farthest hills at last I see the sun!

Now, pournot, cormorant, in that wasteful way You've drenched my dress, bad luck t'you!

Pshaw, damn these acorn cups, they would not drench a fairy.

The wind jeered at him through the trees; the storm drenched his fire; he cursed back at both.

Soon, only a few heavy drops continued to fall, and the setting sun, bursting in splendor from the western clouds, poised its red ball of fire upon the horizon, and poured a flood of crimson on the dancing streamlets, the glittering grass, and drenched foliage of the hill-side.

He had stopped in the middle of the road, and they walked slowly past, through a great puddle, which drenched their feet. 'Get in, Julia.

But it was fruitless work, for the Indians, driven back for the moment, returned with augmented fury, and again drenched the frontier in the blood of the colonists.

This lurid aspect drenched the garden, smeared the terraces, lent to the very soil a tinge as of sacrificial rites, that choked the breath in me, while it seemed to fix me to the earth my feet so longed to leave.

The drizzle had drenched my garments, and the snow-mud had soaked my boots.

She fled back to the garden and, throwing herself, face down, on the dew drenched grass, surrendered to a passion of tearless grief.

68 collocations for  drenches