Drench Quotes

In order that the mortar in the joints may not suffer from frosts, drench it with oil-dregs every year before winter begins. Thus treated, it will not let the hoarfrost enter it. (Vitruvius)
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. View quote
Amos Bronson Alcott
Purification of the soul ... consists in scorning the pleasures that arise through the senses, in not feasting the eyes on the silly exhibitions of jugglers or on the sight of bodies which gives the spur to sensual pleasure, in not permitting licentious songs to enter through the ears and drench your souls. View quote
Basil of Caesarea
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. View quote
Amy Lowell
To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked. View quote
Virginia Woolf