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When _Cutino_, the Hulks great Admirall, Saw that huge Vessel drencht within the surge, Enuie and shame tyered vpon his gall, And for reuenge a thousand meanes doth vrge; But _Grinuile_, perfect in destructions fall, His mischiefes with like miseries doth scourge,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This step turns out all fear: the soul is so drencht with love divine, and resigned up in such a manner to the divine good pleasure, that it would go willingly to Hell, if it did but know it so to be the will of the most high.
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As I arose & rung out my drencht garmints I koncluded fitin wasn't my Fort.
Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Thomas L. Masson 1900
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As I aroze and rung out my drencht garmints, I concluded fitin was n't my fort.
Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887
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Whiles from her tear-drencht face outburst cold shivering singulfs.
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855
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What flouds of teares have drencht his manly face?
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Thy ftormy waves, and deluges Have drencht me o're and o're.
The Psalms of King David Paraphrased, and Turned Into English Verse, According to the Common ... 1668
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367: This Hill; let EVE (for I have drencht her eyes) 368: Here sleep below while thou to foresight wak'st,
Paradise Lost (1667) 1667
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The fourth, is a swallowing up of the Powers in God; by which immersion the Soul is so much drencht and filled with God, that it can’t any longer seek, or will any thing, but its greatest and infinite good.
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It is not these candles alone, moulded beneath the midnight darkness of the new moon, and drencht with human blood, it is not the mere uttering magical words and incantations, that can give you the mastery over the soul of another: there is much more belonging to such works, as the initiated well know. "
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813
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