In the ordinary morning ablutions they tanked without suffocating.
Whether mad women or sane, women pregnant, or the reverse, were tanked or not, she cared at heart no more than whether sheep were washed or no in Ettrick's distant dale.
One day they tanked so savagely that Nurse Eliza, after months of sickly disapproval, came to the new redresser of grievances, and told.
They tanked her cruel they did, and kept her under water till she was nigh gone.
She visited the tanked one, found her in a cold room after it, shivering like ague, and her teeth chattering.