Meanings of sousing in English

I have had quite enough of a salt water sousing.

I had an uncomfortable journey upstream, for I was very wet from my sousing.

Old Abe followed cautiously, bathing his temples and his wrists before sousing all over.

Of course after sousing the poor girl I had to be attentive to her, hadn't I?

The cork reported on drawing, as the best diver doth on sousing from Warwick bridge into Avon.

I don't think much of a sousing.

The spring was not far distant, and they soon were sousing the handkerchiefs in the clear, cold water.

It turned over, sousing him under.

Then, however, she did drop in for a sousing, and mewed in a manner that went to my heart.

The boys was settin' around sousing, an' pushin' round the cyards, an' the Vigilante Committee was settin' on a pow-wow.

Meanwhile the girl had joined her companions, and she silently resumed her flicking and sousing of the chitterlings in the pellucid stream.

Phineas vowed that he would not be so treated, but had to succumb, escaping with a thorough sousing from a dozen buckets.

She got a sousing when the mare was in the quicksand, but I heard her purring not very long after, and was comforted.

After making a brief toilet by sousing our several faces in a pail of water, we have just breakfasted-sketchily -onwine and almonds.

Mavis warned Dale that he would get a sousing, when he told her that he was obliged to go as far as Rodchurch.

It was so warm and comfortable in the berth, and I thought with intolerable horror of the possibility of sousing into the black depths.'