Thesaurus / percolate
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With pulp treated in steeping tanks, fresh water is allowed to percolate or drain slowly through the mass.
THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPERROBERT WALTER SINDALLNo water can percolate athwart it, and consequently where it is, there the superincumbent soil is resolved into a quagmire.
A BOOK OF GHOSTSSABINE BARING-GOULDThe Gulf had risen close enough to their little well to percolate through the sand into it and render it as salt as itself.
THE BOY CHUMS IN THE GULF OF MEXICOWILMER M. ELYConcentrate the weak percolate to a soft extract and dissolve in the reserved portion.
THE PROPAGANDA FOR REFORM IN PROPRIETARY MEDICINES, VOL. 2 OF 2VARIOUSThrough pressure of instincts from past lives, strengths or weaknesses percolate gradually into human consciousness.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGIPARAMHANSA YOGANANDAIn vain It seeks to percolate through flinty hearts of selfishness.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGIPARAMHANSA YOGANANDA"I'll start the electric heater and percolate some coffee for both of we rescued persons," declared Arnold.
BOY SCOUTS IN SOUTHERN WATERSG. HARVEY RALPHSONThis was then placed in slanting troughs to rot and let the oil percolate down into casks placed at the lower end.
CONCERNING "BULLY" HAYESLOUIS BECKEToward the close of the century the more genial practices of other European countries began to percolate into Spain.
A HISTORY OF SPAINCHARLES E. CHAPMANThen there is the other extreme of compact clay, through which water seems scarcely to percolate at all.
FARM DRAINAGEHENRY FLAGG FRENCHWORDS RELATED TO PERCOLATE
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