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
The trick is to veer away from souse holes?a vacuum on the downstream side of a boulder?because the swirl can pull the stern down and pop the bow up, propelling passengers into the drink.
From Time Magazine Archive
From here on out there are drops, rocks, and souse holes aplenty, but a straightforward line through the melee beckons.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was going also to Bayreuth, Germany, to "take a big Wagnerian souse in Parsifal to purge myself of all my sins . . . moral and political."
From Time Magazine Archive
And so, as I was crossing the stepping-stones of the ford of Ballyasheenogh, I missed my foot, and souse I fell into the water.
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
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
The acting is made of cardboard; but the legendary freak-out queen Veronica Cartwright is playing the movie’s soused matriarch — she’s cardboard origami.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2020
‘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
Lum Gillespie dropped the hose with which he was sousing an automobile in front of his garage and approached the group.
From Anderson Crow, Detective by George Barr McCutcheon
With the wheels sucking and sousing in the mud, the Wadsworth machine moved forward as rapidly as the conditions would permit.
From Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake by Walter S. Rogers
By the time I dress up that face for eczema your own father wouldn’t know it, and a good sousing with iodoform will keep the passengers from getting too curious.”
From The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead
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
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