At the same time a smother of salt water blew over the port rail, now far above me, to drench me as thoroughly as though I had fallen overboard.

And if my boat be storm-toss'd and beating for the bay, They'll be howling and be growling as they drench it with their spray For they'd like to heel it over to their laughter when it lists, Or crack the keel between them, or stave it with their fists.

Therefore come straightway with me hard by to the Sign of the Blue Boar, and if thou drinkest as thou appearestand I wot thou wilt not belie thy looksI will drench thy throat with as good homebrewed as ever was tapped in all broad Nottinghamshire.

" "Yes," said Laura Russell, "and have it rain and spoil everything; and soak all the Chinese lanterns, and drench all the people's clothes, and everybody would run into the house and track mud all over.

[20] Maroquine Moors drench you with tea!

The boat didn't ship the tops of many seas but it took in enough spray over the port bow to drench pretty thoroughly the passenger.

The following utterance of Caponsacchi, as he stands before his judges, will show the intensity and ruggedness of Browning's blank verse: "Sirs, how should I lie quiet in my grave Unless you suffer me wring, drop by drop, My brain dry, make a riddance of the drench Of minutes with a memory in each?" His lines are often harsh and dissonant.

'He cannot be in bed,' I thought, 'those showers would drench him through.'

Flood me with knowledge, drench me in light.

Nor herb, nor art, nor magic spells Could quell, nor any drench.

Swallow these two paragraphs of concession as the infusion drawn from those two doctrines laid down at starting, and throw away the effete axioms as fit only for old women to coddle and drench themselves withal.

Whenever these violent cases appear, get some common soap, make a strong suds and drench the mule with it.

Take two ounces of saleratus, put it into a pint of water, shake well, and then drench with the same.

As for Fallerio, not his homelie weedes, His beardlesse face, nor counterfetted speech, Can shield him from deserved punishment; But what he thinkes shall rid him from suspect, Shall drench him in more waves of wretchednesse, Pulling his sonne into relentlesse iawes, Of hungrie death, on tree of infamie.

" "Thanks, sir, I'll take him round myself, and give the honest beast a drench of barley broth, and afterwards, to cheer him up a bit, a handful or two of dried peas."

They appeared anxiously engaged in measuring off a portion of the apartment; and, while occupied in that employment, they sung, in the ancient German language, rhymes more rude than Philipson could well understand, but which may be imitated thus: Measurers of good and evil, Bring the square, the line, the level, Rear the altar, dig the trench, Blood both stone and ditch shall drench.

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

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

These peasants with slouching shoulders and loose limbs and clumsy feet, who had been bringing in the harvest of France, after their tilling and sowing and reaping, why should they be marched off into tempests of shells which would hack off their strong arms and drench unfertile fields with their blood?

Persons who drench themselves with Madeira, Port, &c. and indulge in an occasional debauch of Claret, may indeed be visited in that way; because a transition from the strong brandied wines to the lighter, is always followed by a derangement of the digestive organs.

There came a day of rain, and I spent thirty-six hours in a deserted house, staring most of the time at the continuous drench that poured from the sky.

MERICA 1914 TO THE IRISH RACE IN EVERY LAND Ireland: "All thy life has been a symbol; we can only read a part: God will flood thee yet with sunshine for the woes that drench thy heart.

At Marseilles they drench each other with scented water, which is poured from the windows or squirted from little syringes; the roughest jest is to souse passers-by with clean water, which gives rise to loud bursts of laughter."

30 Touch with thy lips and enkindle This moon-white delicate body, Drench with the dew of enchantment This mortal one, that I also Grow to the measure of beauty 35 Fleet yet eternal.

And the moving grasses Have relief; the dew-drench 10 Comes to quell the parching Ache of noon they suffered.