Soused

Well, we got back, and to our joy, we found that the Orderly Sergeant had got "soused" and forgot to mark us absent, so maybe we were not glad that we had those two extra days -- the only crimes you are sorry for in the Army are the ones that are found out. ❋ Jack O'Brien (N/A)

On no night did I see more than forty or fifty who might be said to be "soused"; on no night did I see more than a dozen or fifteen who had to be thrown into the accommodation barge with the "dead ones," the helpless ones who were so far gone that they had to be carried up the sides of their ships from the barge which made the last rounds of the fleet. ❋ Unknown (1912)

Young Powell sprang up, grappled the shell and "soused" it into a pool of water near by. ❋ Miles O Sherrill (1904)

The emigrants had great fun at first coaxing their unwary fellows to stand near the windward gangway, and get well "soused" by the water which now and then came dashing over the rails. ❋ Alfred Brockenbrough Williams (1878)

By another law it was ordained, that no one should be allowed, either for dinner or supper, above three dishes in each course, and not above two courses; and it is likewise expressly declared that "soused" meat is to count as one of these dishes. [ ❋ David Hume (1743)

Without Kate there to rein him in, Wills was soused by midnight. ❋ Christopher Andersen (2011)

Soft, sweetly soused fillets of mackerel come with crunchy autumn salads; a competently made piggy terrine, with a strip of beetroot running through it, is served with slices of still-warm toasted brioche. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A little over an hour into his twenty-second-birthday party at Boujis, a soused James Middleton was photographed being bundled into a cab with a similarly smashed Kate—all while Carole Middleton angrily warned the paparazzi to keep their distance. ❋ Christopher Andersen (2011)

A total freak of a song, and so soused in psychedelia it's a surprise to find it was made in 1977. ❋ Paul MacInnes (2010)

Tambo! shrieked the cannibals from the trees, appalled at so awful a desecration, as they saw their chief tumbled into the tub and the sacred dirt rubbed and soused from his body. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Put vanilla ice cream together with Southern Comfort and coffee liquer and you have a soused smoothie. ❋ Laura Weiss (2011)

So he did his best to endure the scrubbing, and all might have been well had not Davis soused him under. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You've been soused to the ears in sunshine, like so much whiskey, an 'now you're payin' for it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I've been soused to the guards an 'all the rest of it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When you compare the military experience of John Kerry and Dubya, it is quickly evident who saw fire and who was just a drunk and a coke head, frequently too soused to even report for duty. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was disheveled, soused with water, bespattered with mud, his round face very pale, and he fixed a wild stare on the company … ❋ Unknown (2009)

Three times again it soused him under as he tried to climb out upon it. ❋ Unknown (2010)