Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversoaked
Literary usage of Oversoaked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the diseases of infancy and childhood by Charles West (1874)
"... on the neck and arm, where blisters had been applied;' and says that the part
presented 'a white surface which had the aspect of an oversoaked membrane. ..."
2. Home and Community Hygiene: A Text-book of Personal and Public Health by Jean Broadhurst (1918)
"The soil in all cases finally becomes clogged with the finer particles in the
sewage and oversoaked with water. The cultivation of water-loving plants, ..."
3. On diphtheria by Edward Headlam Greenhow (1861)
"This white surface had the aspect of an oversoaked membrane which was becoming
absolutely rotten. . . . . I scratched the slough,' says Dr. Starr, ..."
4. Steel Thermal Treatment by John W. Urquhart (1922)
"... but the figures are final in representing the true value of that steel, assuming
that it had not been overheated or oversoaked. Whenever the file bites, ..."
5. General History for Colleges and High Schools by Philip Van Ness Myers (1906)
"... where they were used to pump the water from the oversoaked lands, and thus
became the means of creating the most important part of what is now the ..."
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