I found two drenched and shivering, after a hail-and-thunder storm, and setting them in a basket on the cooking-stove hearth, went to help Melindy "dress her bow-pot," as she called arranging a vase of flowers, and when I came back the little turkeys were singed; they died a few hours after.

Drented, drenched.

"I stood long at this spot on the blood-drenched soil of France, just where the regiments from Trier had fought so bravely and suffered so heavily.

From our exercise on deck we generally returned below drenched to the skin, but glad to even pay that price for two hours of fresh air, and an opportunity to gaze about at sea and sky.

Windows were broken mysteriouslythe rain beat in and warped and drenched and spoiled the floors.

She had frizzed it with curling-tongs, rolled it on papers, and drenched it with soap suds till there was danger of its fading entirely away; still it was as straight, after all, as an Indian's.

The wind shut around him at once and plastered his clothes against his body as if he had been drenched to the skin in water.

The torrent of rain loosened the soil above, and they were so drenched in clay-colored water coming down, and sat so still beneath it, that they looked like cheap terra cotta images.

Along the Tiber banks there was panic where the river-boats were plunging and breaking adrift on the rising flood and miserable, drenched slaves labored with the bales of merchandize, hauling the threatened stuff to higher ground.

Drenched guards, posted near the eaves where water splashed on them clanged their shields in darkness as the decurion passed; there was not a square yard of the palace grounds unwatched.

Ascending the high sandstone country on the south side of the river, we halted at 5.35 in a sandy valley trending north-west, in which we found a small patch of grass around a native well; but we were not much in want of water, being completely drenched by a heavy shower of rain just after we halted.

"We're all drenched," spoke Amy.

Then the drenched ones made themselves comfortable in Mollie's home, and, while waiting, talked over the accident.

"It won't be so comfortable then to be drenched.

We'll be drenched!"

"Not such a neat housekeeper as the woman here seems to be; she'd come home if she was drenched," and she glanced around the well-ordered rooms.

We would be drenched in an instant, and perhaps take cold.

Murdered and murderers swarm; Slayers that slew and were slain, Till the drenched place smoked with the rain That poured in a torrent warm, Till red as the Rider's of Edom Were splashed the white garments of Freedom With the wash of the horrible storm!

I cannot deem but God has pitied me; Else why with painful care have I been saved, Whenever tossed and drenched in the fierce tide Of Saladin's victories by the walls profaned Of Jaffa, on the sands of far Daroum, Or in the battle thundering on the downs Of Ramlah, or the bloody day that shed Red horrors on high Gaza's parapets?

The rain had drenched me to the skin.

The door of the little chapel was pushed ajar, and two men, drenched with rain, entered, carrying a sack between them.

My companion on the left received a bullet full in the face and fell on me; I brutally pushed him away, wiping my cheek which he had drenched with blood.

It brought back dear memories of glorious April mornings on Long Island, when through the singing of robin and song-sparrow comes the piercing cadence of the meadowlark; and of the far northland woods in June, fragrant with the breath of pine and balsam-fir, where sweetheart sparrows sing from wet spruce thickets and rapid brooks rush under the drenched and swaying alder- boughs.

"Ay," the woman began, "it is indisputable that his hair is like spun gold and that his eyes resemble sun-drenched waters in June.

I had remembered only you, Antoine, and Navarre, and the clean-eyed Navarrese" Now for a little, Jehane paced the gleaming and sun-drenched apartment as a bright leopardess might tread her cage.