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"text": "1805: Journal of William Clark\nWind Shifted about to the S. W. and blew hard accompanied with hard rain. rained all the last night we are all wet our bedding and stores are also wet, we haveing nothing which is Sufficient to keep ourselves bedding or Stores dry"
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"ref": "1852, Charles Dickens, chapter 59, in Bleak House",
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"text": "1972: Trends in long-term care: hearings, ninety-first Congress\nMy mother has long hair. They rubbed a towel over it to get the drippings. They combed it out, and it was sopping wet. Then they braided it, and put her to bed with a wet head. The pillow was all wet and her sheet was all wet."
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"sense": "thoroughly soaked",
"word": "läpimärkä"
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"ref": "1935, Liberty, volume xii",
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"ref": "1965 May 28, “The Lull That Lapsed”, in Time",
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"ref": "1966, Robert Hogan, Saint Jane",
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"ref": "1940, Ruth Comfort Mitchell, Of Human Kindness",
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