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Example sentences for "percolated"

Lexicographically close words:
perchloride; percipient; percipients; percipit; percolate; percolates; percolating; percolation; percolator; percussion
  1. Then he speaks in 1896 of new discoveries which began to cause the mad rush from all parts of the world as the news percolated through to the outside.

  2. The young man kissed away her tears, and soon brought the ready smile back to her lips, as the sanity which informed so remarkably his powers of speech percolated through her mind.

  3. The native confidence that he had in himself percolated slowly through her.

  4. Then he read it, and re-read it, till the full meaning of what it meant had percolated through and through his mind.

  5. It is then to be percolated with water, the first part of the percolate being returned as fast as it runs through.

  6. After some time the percolated liquid will be found divided into two distinct portions, the lower and heavier one being a watery solution of tannic acid, and the upper one an ethereal solution of gallic acid and colouring matter.

  7. This water had been obtained from a well into which the excrete from a typhus patient had percolated from a privy.

  8. At first she lay with her eyes shut, breathing softly, till the sounds percolated through the stupor of her fatigue and she woke, disentangling them from dreams.

  9. Down the gullies in the hills, following the beaten buffalo tracks, streams percolated through the grass of the bottom, feeling their way to the river.

  10. Soon afterward the plug is drawn out of the hole at the bottom, and the mixture, having percolated through the sand, escapes into a tub.

  11. Despite legal enactment and social taboo, colored strains percolated insidiously into the creole stock.

  12. From Egypt to Morocco the inhabitants are Arabized in culture and Mohammedan in faith, while Arab blood has percolated ever since the Moslem conquest twelve centuries ago.

  13. The shells were, perhaps, slightly broken at the same time, so that small grains of sand might gradually be introduced into the interior by water as it percolated through the beach.

  14. When treating of springs and overflowing wells, I have stated that porous rocks are percolated by fresh water to great depths, and that sea-water probably penetrates in the same manner through the rocks which form the bed of the ocean.

  15. It was as though visions percolated through the gate of the cloister and shed warm puffs of air in the place.

  16. Indeed, within a yard of him the thicket was so dense, so closely overarched by loftier trees, that no ray of moonshine percolated into its pitchy blackness.

  17. He soon understood that he was gaining on the men behind; but he presently became aware that, not far ahead of him, daylight seemed to have percolated into the tunnel.

  18. The coffee used for percolated coffee should be ground finer than for boiled coffee, but not so fine as for filtered coffee.

  19. And when she is his, when that tender assurance has percolated to his marrow, with what enhanced value he regards the priceless possession.

  20. When that meaning percolated to his marrow, he swore prodigiously, as our Army, long ago, was said to have sworn in Flanders.

  21. At length we reached extensive fir woods, from whence a valley was visible, percolated by a large stream to which we descended over open country with beautiful patches of firs, and at length over extensive swards.

  22. Thus much of the rainfall was prevented from escaping rapidly and such as was not absorbed by the roots made its way into the ground beneath the upper soil, whence it percolated downward to feed the springs.

  23. Were it not for the pile of talus in front, water from the river would pour into the cavern in extreme floods; these subside very rapidly, however, and have never percolated through the barrier.

  24. Nearly all of the bones mentioned above were soft and decayed, owing to the water which had percolated through the roof and dripped on them.

  25. Every one smoked like a donkey-engine, and the genial managing director percolated amongst his guests with a kindly inquiry as to how you were getting on.

  26. And I have a vague recollection of having read, years later, a description of what was seen as the portals were thrown back after their century of peace, and light and air had percolated through the room.

  27. Now it percolated feebly between the boards covering two windows.

  28. A tiny ray of faint light percolated through the keyhole.

  29. This scooping-out of the country was due to the action of water, and the same process was gradually wearing away the upper plateaux, which by absorbing rain became undermined as it percolated through and dissolved the marly substratum.

  30. As the rain has percolated through the ground, it has become so thoroughly impregnated with sulphate of lime that it has deposited a series of strata some six or seven feet below the surface, which form a flaky subterranean pavement.

  31. We deepened all the wells, and were most anxious watchers of the fluid as it slowly percolated through the soil into the bottom of each.

  32. We scratched out a lot of sand with our hands, and some water percolated through, but the hole was too deep to get any out for the horses, as we had no means of removing the sand, having no shovel.

  33. An increasing admiration for his master percolated sweetly through Jeff's remarks like dripping honey.

  34. Certainly, he could not flatter himself that as yet any premonition of danger had percolated to those distant centers of industry against which he was devising a campaign of surprise.


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