Which preposition to use with soak
Cut 1 pound of cooked veal in very small pieces; add 1 herring that has been soaked in milk, 3 cooked potatoes, 2 pickles, 3 boiled beets, 3 apples, 2 stalks of celery, 1 cooked carrot.
These rocks have, perhaps, been more deeply soaked with blood than any other part of the entire Allied line on any continent.
Salted and dried meats require to be soaked for some time in water before they are cooked.
From each of these lines then the fire began again to spread, as though soaking through the planks.
Do you want us all to get soaked to our skins?"
From a great gash in the side of his head the blood had soaked into his hair and dried over his face.
Put the peas to soak over-night in soft water, and float off such as rise to the top.
Put the beans into cold water, and let them soak from 2 to 4 hours, according to their age; then put them into cold water, salted in the above proportion, bring them to boil, and let them simmer very slowly until tender; pour the water away from them, let them stand by the side of the fire, with the lid of the saucepan partially off, to allow the beans to dry; then add 1 oz. of butter and a seasoning of pepper and salt.
"Say, but we'll get a nice soak if we remain here." "You'll get a nice soak on the coco, if you don't stop pulling me around," came back from Jack.
He didn't know a danothin' at all about minin' ma'am, but every ol' soak of a prospector could git a meal off him by tellin' him about some wildcat bonanza or other.
All soiled clothing that cannot well be burnt should be put to soak at once in disinfectants, and afterward boiled apart from the family wash.
Grain-boilers and mush-kettles should be allowed to cool, then filled with cold water and allowed to soak during the meal hour, when they can be easily cleaned.
For clear stock take all the ingredients mentioned above, also some carrot and turnip in good-sized pieces, some parsley, and mixed herbs as preferred, and about 1/2 lb. of hard peas, which should be soaked along with the haricots.
The fusillade which greeted them was like a skirmish-line in action, but the most effective execution was with buckshot as they came staggering and water-soaked out of the water.