drenched
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At times the fire on both sides was nearly quenched by the showers, and the bedrenched combatants could do little but gaze at each other through a gray veil of mist and rain.
From Montcalm and Wolfe by Parkman, Francis
It was the night of the nineteenth of September; floods of rain bedrenched the sentries on the rampart, and as day dawned on the dripping barracks and deluged parade, the storm increased in violence.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 by Various
In the driving rain, urged by the sick Laudonnière, the men, bedrenched and disheartened, labored as they might to strengthen their defences.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 by Various
It is so, O sea! wild roses, With the day-long fog bedrenched, Have come from their inland closes With a thirst for you unquenched.
From Sea Poems by Rice, Cale Young
Meanwhile Theresa Joyce, who was likewise bedrenched and weary, found a seat in the opposite corner, where her nearest neighbours were Ody Rafferty, and her niece-in-law, Mrs. Brian Kilfoyle, with her daughter Rose.
From Strangers at Lisconnel by Barlow, Jane
