soddening

As you toil and clamber up one of these steep gorges (having left your pony soddening his girths in water, a mile or two lower down) you hear, every now and then, echoing among the hills, in a low tone, more silent than the previous silence, a melancholy warning bugle, — a signal to the miners to withdraw.

Pictures from Italy 2007

But, when this octopus of the air clutched them in its corpse-like grip, breathing its wet vapoury breath into their faces, soddening their clothes with heavy moisture and slackening their energies as it had already damped their hopes of a steam-vessel coming to the rescue, Bob, whose nerves were strained to their utmost tension, at last broke down.

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

He followed the grass-track to the north, and had walked less than half-an-hour when the wind took his cap and blew it into the middle of a pond, where it lay soddening out of reach.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

He followed the grass track to the north, and had walked less than half an hour when the wind took his cap and blew it into the middle of a pond, where it lay soddening out of reach.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

He followed the grass-track to the north, and had walked less than half-an-hour when the wind took his cap and blew it into the middle of a pond, where it lay soddening out of reach.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923

She had cooked for him a mutton-chop, which was soddening itself between two plates upon the little table near the fire.

Lady Audley's Secret 1875

He kept the collar of his coat turned up, and plunged his hands deep into his pockets; shivering before the dripping moisture of the bare walls, the muddy heaps of clay, and the pools of water soddening the floor.

His Masterpiece ��mile Zola 1871

On it came, winding its way in a frightful stream into the room, soddening the rich carpet, and lying presently in

Dreams and Dream Stories Anna Bonus Kingsford 1867

As you toil and clamber up one of these steep gorges (having left your pony soddening his girths in water, a mile or two lower down) you hear, every now and then, echoing among the hills, in a low tone, more silent than the previous silence, a melancholy warning bugle, -- a signal to the miners to withdraw.

Pictures from Italy Charles Dickens 1841

Mr. Bilton go goose-fleshy in the days when he had flesh to go it with, that she hadn't been aware the inn was to be a popular resort and rendezvous for Germans, and that she wished to speak alone with Mr. Twist in the morning; while the twins, feeling the ominousness of this last sentence, -- as did Mr. Twist, who started when he heard it, -- and overcome by the lassitude that had succeeded the shocks of the afternoon, a lassitude much increased by their having tried to finish up the pailsful of left-over ices and the huge piles of cakes slowly soddening in their own souring cream, went out together on to the moonlit verandah and stood looking up in silence at the stars.

Christopher and Columbus Elizabeth von Arnim 1903