Yet you are happy in your soddenness."

I was soaked to soddenness, and no longer cared whether my mantle covered my fuligin torturer's cloak.

Turning soddenness into a virtue, the plan would channel water into dozens of brooks and reflecting pools, waterfalls and wetlands.

Given the general soddenness of the Wind Plain, she was as comfortable-and as close to dry-as she was likely to get.

"It is an imperfect thing," Mr. Gelernter writes, "but the amazing luck stands next to you in the form of your small boy, who adds his bit to the all-over soddenness and then dances his way home beside you."

It was a Saturday night, and, for the first time in its history, the mine had draught beer, two barrels having arrived that morning on the wagons; consequently, the chronic state of soddenness had been exchanged for something more vigorous.