1 Perspiration soaked through her freshly starched dress as she followed Dr. Meade about, a basin in her hand.
2 Her legs were leaden, trembling with fatigue and strain, and she shivered with cold from the clammy sweat that soaked her body.
3 He was without a greatcoat and soaked to the skin.
4 The house was utterly still and the stillness soaked into her like a fine chill rain.
5 It was not a scorching, hard, dusty day like the treacherous intruder of a week before, but soaked with languor, softened with a milky light.
6 She was sobbing, her soft wrinkly lids soaked with tears.
7 Their coats were soaked through.
8 Yes, when a fellow's soaked through, it's hard to be sensible, that's a fact.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 121. Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks. 9 Then, too, a still more dreadful thing happened to him; he worked in a place where his feet were soaked in chemicals, and it was not long before they had eaten through his new boots.
10 His soaked clothing began to steam, and the horrible stench of fertilizer to fill the room.
11 It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT 12 All this grass has been soaked in blood.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT 13 The two poor little children who had been soaked through, began to grow warm once more.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 14 If any light had illuminated that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which he was soaked that he had passed the night in the rain.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 15 Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked by the rain, with lightning in their eyes.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IV—THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN