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Definition of Soddening
1. sodden [v] - See also: sodden
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soddening
Literary usage of Soddening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lancet (1843)
"... fully soaking through flannel, and cold poultices soddening the skin, have,
to the writer of this paper, produced actual wonders. ..."
2. Lady Audley's secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1862)
"She had cooked for him a mutton chop, which was soddening itself between two
plates upon the little table near the fire.- Robert Audley sighed as he sat ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1902)
"... would be available for purposes of vitalisation, and b^ «e soddening and
ruining portions which should, so to speak, have»- -^e been carefully kept dry. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"natural obstacle, forming, in many cases, it was too evident, the grave- mound
of human victims soddening beneath. On the door of the dilapidated inn, ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1821)
"Broke the long furrows' level, soddening rains To the eager air the season seem'd
to lend A piercing shrewdness ; and if ..."
6. Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne: Taken from Original Sources by John Ashton (1882)
"soddening our selves like Deer's Humbles design'd for Minc'd Pies, till we were
almost Parboiled . . . then after he had wiped me o'er with a dry Clout, ..."
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