There was a crash and a splintered debrisplates that rolled like hoops to the four corners of the room, shivering as they landed; a great ringing explosion of heavy stoneware, and herself drenched with the webby water.

The color of the mantle which on his arm he bore Is like the dark arena's dust when it is drenched in gore.

But straight she took the scimitar, that once her lover wore, It lay amid the dewy grass, drenched to the hilt in gore.

" Anne understood him now, as with a great drench of surprise.

His spectacles were gone; his hair was pasted all over his face, as though he had just come up from a long dive; his clothes were torn, and in a state of the wildest disorder; while the strangest part of all was that from head to foot he seemed soaking wet, drenched through and through with water, which dripped from his garments as he stood.

"The sacred robe which Vernon wore Was drenched within the same; And hence his virtues guard our shore, And Grog derives its name.

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.

We were quite drenched on reaching a little wayside auberge.

Villon had not been unprepared for something of the sort, and had put himself as much in shelter as the nature of the porch admitted; but for all that, he was deplorably drenched below the waist.

Meanwhile our rotary island loaded with predatory life, and more drenched with blood, both animal and vegetable, than ever mutinied ship, scuds through space with unimaginable speed, and turns alternate cheeks to the reverberation of a blazing world, ninety million miles away.

Willie, suddenly competent, held the lantern while Rowcliffe poured the drench down her throat.

On St. Patrick's he takes rest, and is drenched for all the year after.

" He reached for his cloak, placed it over Mademoiselle's shoulders, and seated himself in the stern beside her, apparently forgetful that he was drenched from head to foot.

Then follow dismal streams of Lethe, in which the half-drenched on earth are constrained to drown downright, by wharfs where Ophelia twice acts her muddy death.

The blood drenched out of her heart.