Wash on both sides by squeezing and sousing in the water. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference
We kept on sousing ourselves like it was coming out of a garden hose. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams of Reality, 4] Reference
This unlucky sousing in the flood settled the grip of the fever on Morgan. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
As its title suggests, it pays tribute to the modern father of making sousing look swank. From Wordnik.com. [Imbibed at Lenell’s] Reference
Then, however, she did drop in for a sousing, and mewed in a manner that went to my heart. From Wordnik.com. [A First Year in Canterbury Settlement] Reference
He judged it prudent, therefore, to bring her to herself again, and so did by sousing her liberally with cold water. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
She got a sousing when the mare was in the quicksand, but I heard her purring not very long after, and was comforted. From Wordnik.com. [A First Year in Canterbury Settlement] Reference
“Impossible!” he cried, letting down the pedal of the washing basin in which he had been sousing his healthy red neck. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
A rain curtain blew in from the heavy skies, cutting off sight of the sea creature and sousing everything with cold stinging droplets. From Wordnik.com. [HOTHOUSE]
They were dead tired, but happy, and after a sousing wash-up they got into their pajamas and, throwing their blankets on the floor of the little office, were soon fast asleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
Why, he's plaguy fond of sousing work; howsomever. From Wordnik.com. [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference
"Stop sousing about the water while I'm here," grumbled the Man. From Wordnik.com. [In a German Pension] Reference
"Wait till you see them on a sousing wet December morning!" declared. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess of the School] Reference
And he heard the rain still drenching and sousing away off somewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Little Eve Edgarton] Reference
Hostess sousing sim Dream C Club now has some more than coincedentally similar eroge. From Wordnik.com. [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference
The boys was settin 'around sousing, an' pushin 'round the cyards, an' the Vigilante. From Wordnik.com. [The Forfeit] Reference
The lady only wanted to get his authority against sousing her little nephew, and said. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference
I returned after two, with a sousing shower for companion; I got very wet and very warm. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
The cork reported on drawing, as the best diver doth on sousing from Warwick bridge into Avon. From Wordnik.com. [Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk] Reference
"Very well, your Honour, then here goes; but if you don't get a sousing, my name an't Barney.". From Wordnik.com. [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference
Mavis warned Dale that he would get a sousing, when he told her that he was obliged to go as far as Rodchurch. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Garden] Reference
Carl seized a horse-bucket, and began sousing the window-sills of the harness-room, where the fire was hottest. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Grogan] Reference
He saw me pushing along the life-line, plucked up heart, and went with myself through a sousing sea to the door. From Wordnik.com. [Great Sea Stories] Reference
A rich land-taste came about the ship like the smell of wet oaks when wind sweeps their leaves after a sousing shower. From Wordnik.com. [The Centaur] Reference
"Impossible!" he cried, letting down the pedal of the washing basin in which he had been sousing his healthy red neck. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
Lum Gillespie dropped the hose with which he was sousing an automobile in front of his garage and approached the group. From Wordnik.com. [Anderson Crow, Detective] Reference
Phineas vowed that he would not be so treated, but had to succumb, escaping with a thorough sousing from a dozen buckets. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific] Reference
They found whole families soaking in groups in the canal, sousing their babies in the water, and draining them on the bank. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Merriwell Down South] Reference
"Well, you 've had a good sousing -- had you a good walk?" asked the little brisk old woman, in her pleasant light old voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Paramount] Reference
Some of the pack horses went down, sousing again our unfortunate bedding, but by the grace of fortune not a saddle pony lost his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Nights] Reference
Frenchman ever drinks water with his meals, and the spectacle of this American sousing himself with water while he ate was a rare sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me] Reference
When her brood begins to lag and pine, the wild mother knows, and leading them to some old ant-hill, she gives them a sousing dust-bath. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference
They disappeared round the curve of the road, and only his sousing footsteps and the top ribbon of Marian's bonnet told where they were. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
Meanwhile the girl had joined her companions, and she silently resumed her flicking and sousing of the chitterlings in the pellucid stream. From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
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