souse
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Specialty products include beef hot dogs, cocktail sausages and hot or mild souse under the Magnolia brand.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 27, 2018
From here on out there are drops, rocks, and souse holes aplenty, but a straightforward line through the melee beckons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Baker's hero, Sampson Shillitoe, poet, souse, womanizer and pratfalling Prometheus, might be the worshipful nephew of Joyce Gary's artist-as-an-old-grog, Gulley Jimson.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through the mysterious medium of Strine, magic comes out mare chick, a terrace house is a terror souse, house-proud is assprad, and sacks of potatoes are sex apertaters.
From Time Magazine Archive
What I was after was a souse in the Sound; but say, I never know just what's goin' to happen to me when I gets to roamin' around Westchester County!
From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford
Her main dish was smoked rainbow trout, citrus cured rillette, fried egg, chive mash, soused vegetables and herb butter sauce.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2023
What will this year’s Cannes jurors think of Östlund’s mash-up of Buñuelian chaos and “Gilligan’s Island,” complete with Woody Harrelson as increasingly soused skipper?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2022
Where they diverge has to do the rough grain Walter assigns to Malory, a quality the stubbornly refined but equally soused Lucille rarely demonstrates.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2021
A player’s livelihood and legacy shouldn’t depend on a pack of dilettantes with the judgment of a soused house party.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2016
‘Wake up and go down yourself. Call the cop and let him get soused on the chain gang with cornbread and peas. Go to it, Misses Brannon.’
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
First he took on a whiskered lion’s shape, a serpent then; a leopard; a great boar; then sousing water; then a tall green tree.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
I am not revengeful, but I did enjoy it when one of the porters, tottering under the weight of the fat lady, made a false step and nearly gave her a sousing.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
A good, sousing wash in the family lavatory in the entry, plentifully supplied with clear water, soap, tin basins and clean roller towels, helped much to restore the boys' self-respect and good humor.
From Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys by John McElroy
“Oh, I heard your fiendish plot—I heard the water sousing around,” she said, “but I thought there was no use waking up till the last minute,—I was in the middle of such a delicious dream.”
From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Annabel Sharp
The mother was there diligently sousing something that she had caught; and presently she appeared and the little ones forgot their play in the joy of eating.
From A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories by William J. (William Joseph) Long
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