They all, it is true, possessed cloaks or wraps of some sort, but these garments were still sodden with salt water and therefore unwearable, even if the oppressive warmth in each room rendered such a thing possible.
As each pile of sodden garments was delivered to him he squeezed out as much water as possible with his hands and then applied himself to the task of baking them dry.
A sky, somber and leaden, arched above him, and now and then flakes of snow fell in the sodden trench, but John Scott went on placidly with his task.
The order to be on guard was given everywhere, and the men dragged themselves from their sodden beds.
The capacity to retain vitality and will-power in the face of cold and fatigue, and not to become sodden flesh indifferent to what happened, was even more important than courage, which was never wanting.
And he had tramped through a day of rain withsodden shoes and steaming garments.
In the morning there was mist and rain and Kenny tramped the sodden world in a mood of sadness.
The grey rain-clouds had become darker and the shadows crept over the sodden hills.
First we crossed the sodden lawn, and then entered the pine wood, which I had skirted on the night before.
I never knew a man so wine-sodden and so sharp-witted.
Everything was wet, the hillside above me was either intensely green sodden turf or great streaming slabs of limestone, seaward was a rocky headland, a ruin of a beehive shape, and beyond a vast waste of tumbling waters unlit by any sun.
You're bourgeois to your finger-tips, your ideal of happiness is a meek female in a parlour and half a dozen food-sodden brats.
I wrote it myself upstairs to-day whilst you thought me sodden with brandy and three-parts asleep.
Chauvelin; "this so-called hero is nothing but a wine-sodden brute, who seeks to nerve himself for a trying ordeal by drowning his faculties in brandy.
He might just as well, he might much better, slump down in a sodden heap amid the rest of the jetsam.
He persisted, a sodden lump of flesh preserved in alcohol.
But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.
On the floor, where he had fallen, I found a seaman's torch, which had been lighted but was now sodden with water.
But I woke up to agonies of cold--a sodden deadness of the limbs which set me wondering numbly if I had any legs left--and a gnawing hunger and emptiness.
For I remember nothing of that first night on the spar, and only came slowly back to sense of sodden pain and hunger when the sun was up.
So torturing was it in the afternoon that the sodden cold of the night now seemed as nothing in comparison, and to relieve it I dropped my body into the water to soak again.
Little curled up inside the deckhouse also, but shivering at the touch of sodden couches, he returned to the deck outside and fell to pacing back and forth in hope of adding to the fatigue earned in the hold.
And, in the half-light of the veranda, the sodden features smirked and grinned, scowled and leered, with an incessant twitching at the corners of the mouth that showed teeth still white.
So much has already been done in what was, most of it, a mere sodden tangle, impenetrable not only to human beings but even to the light of heaven, that it gives one heart for what may be achieved in the future.
Her heavy bud becomes hopelessly sodden after anything like a shower.
Her boats were gone; a davit stuck up at the end of the poop crumpled like a ram's horn; and by the taffrail her worn and sodden crew clustered and cheered the Burdock.
Ladies mostly is afeard to be alone at sech times"--untying the yellow cotton handkerchief and throwing his sodden hat upon the stone hearth.
And a woman took, and spread a covering over the mouth of the well, as it were to dry sodden barley and so the thing was not known.
Also before they burnt the fat, the servant of the priest came, and said to the man that sacrificed: Give me flesh to boil for the priest: for I will not take of thee sodden flesh, but raw.
Take the fattest of the flock, and lay together piles of bones under it: the seething thereof is boiling hot, and the bones thereof are thoroughly sodden in the midst of it.
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.
Growing more sullen and sodden day by day, I had eyes for nothing but the green bottle at my elbow and the constantly replenished glass of cracked ice by its side.
I was so sodden with absinthe by this time, so sick of the whole job, so anxious to get quit of it for good, that I raised no objections.
These same men who were despising him for a sodden squaw-man would bow their heads to him when the game was won.
They would not permit even so harmless an individual as a sodden squaw-man to trail them.
Having made camp, Reivers knew what the boys would expect of him in his character of sodden squaw-man.
It was a strange procession that appeared on the shining wet road, with the dripping autumn trees on each side, and the gray sodden clouds crawling up in the distance.
In doubt as to what means to take to escape detection, he desperately turns to the flask again, and before he knows it, his sodden brain loses consciousness altogether, and thus Harrison finds him.
He rose, and Hinckley obediently enough followed suit, although into his drink-sodden brain hardly a word of Harrison's explanation and caution had penetrated.
The three dismal, sodden loafers (I could see them too; they hadn't budged an inch) seemed to me to be watching her.
I noticed three abominable, drink-sodden loafers, sallow and dirty, who had come to range themselves in a row within ten feet of us against the front of the public-house.
The whole region was sodden and rain-soaked, verdant with a lush growth.
First there came the usual premonitory explosions--the sound of subterranean blasts as the ice cracked, gave way, and shifted to the weight above; echoes filled the sodden valley with memories of the summer months.
It was late on the second day when a tired and sodden messenger bearing the marks of heavy travel appeared at O'Neil's tent and inquired for Miss Appleton.
The great trees in Shenstone Park stood gaunt and bare, spreading wide arms over thesodden grass.
