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Then, overnight, completely saturate it by placing it in a soaking vessel such as an old bathtub or an open-topped metal drum.
Remove old nail polish with a single stroke by soaking a cotton wool pad with nail polish remover.
To remove stains from clothing, try soaking fabrics in water mixed with borax, lemon juice, hydrogen peroxide, washing soda, or white vinegar.
He could feel the clammy touch of water or mud soaking through his trousers as he held the bowl between his knees and unstoppered the flask.
Cook until the flour is light golden brown, then stir in the stock and also the liquid reserved from soaking the dried mushrooms.
She has a stack of willow in her garden at all times, soaking in water ready for weaving.
After realizing how long I had sat soaking in the water, I hoisted myself up out of the tub and walked across the room to retrieve a towel.
While those were soaking in boiling water, I also boiled chicken with garlic and onions.
I laid quietly in the bathtub soaking in the warm water and letting it settle my thoughts.
After 15 to 20 minutes soaking in the water, your pores will enlarge and pulse quicken.
I couldn't have looked convinced, because she then dragged me over to her sink where a dirty baking dish was soaking in water.
An old man, whose face looked as if he'd been soaking in water too long, snuck glances at me while puffing on a cigarette.
Since they cannot maintain a peaceful mind within activity, they avoid noisy places and spend their days soaking in stale water.
A small stream of warm red liquid flowed down my neck and hit my shirt, soaking a small patch of black cloth.
The rain poured down relentlessly, soaking her to the skin within minutes of its beginning.
Cat twirled around as the warm rain pounded down on her, soaking her uniform-dress and hair.
I heard the shattering but not before I felt the hot liquid soaking my worm pajama pants and burning my skin.
Once the weather had died down, I found to my horror that I had about 100 kg of sea water soaking my rations.
Instead of sleeping, though, I cried silently, my tears soaking the pillow.
By then tears were already soaking into her skin and her eyes were a bit swollen.
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Examples from Classical Literature
For soaking, use one and a half cups of water for each cup of flake tapioca, and one pint of water for a cup of pearl tapioca.
The flake tapioca requires longer soaking and cooking than the pearl tapioca.
After soaking and picking some fine Carolina rice, boil it in salt and water, until sufficiently tender, but not to mash.
He spent a week soaking in warm baths and eating and avoiding the WP crowd.
Prolonged soaking in a hot solution of potassium bichromate which has been acidified with sulphuric acid will often prove useful.
A few biscuits, made savory by soaking them in seawater, a tuft of samphire gathered from the beach, and an apple for the dessert.
How or why the principle obtained by soaking the calve's stomach produces coagulation has not yet been discovered.
But the embryo of Indian corn is larger and can be easily examined after long soaking.
Rub greasy dishes with soft paper, and put water and ammonia or washing powder into utensils that need soaking.
This prevents rain soaking down inside the leaf sheath, but lets it run down the outside to the root where it is needed.
For, even while we watched him, he had disappeared into the face of the rock like a raindrop soaking into sand.
Then Mis' Poteet she cried the top of shoofly's head so soaking wet it give her a sneeze, and we all had to laugh.
Market hides, which are uncured, require the least soaking, the cleansing effect being most needed.
I hated it, being alone with him there, and his looking so mussy, and my vanity case soaking from the river.
Partial substitutes for stratification are soaking and scalding the seeds.
After soaking up punishment, the Drovers came out for the second half revitalised after a dose of smelling salts from coach Lyndon Lewis.
The game was played in great spirit and this was appreciated by the soaking wet parents and spectators.
She was soaking wet, had a small cut on her head and looked really pitiful.
My felt boots are soaking and squelching, my socks are snuffling.
It was that soaking last night, and then the stewing in that hot sand.
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