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
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
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
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 Ford, Sewell
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
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
Previously on music’s biggest night, most everything was played live, which is why bum notes were to the Grammys what soused speeches are to the Golden Globes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 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
Indeed, the metal was almost red-hot, while a fiery heat as from a furnace ascended, cooled a little perhaps by the sprays of water sousing in from the hoses.
From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)
After travelling all day on the 26th, we arrived in sousing rain at night to hear there were no porters at the station.
From My Impressions of America by Asquith, Margot
But the lord still considered himself privileged to manifest his authority over his vassals by thrusting his booted leg into the bed of a newly-married couple, or by sousing the bridegroom in a river.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
I have no hesitation in saying that her stern struck the ground, but no injury was done beyond sousing a few trunks and beds.
From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by Shipp, John
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