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Each morning they rose at dawn and, while Tate percolated coffee, Kya fried corn fritters in Ma's old iron skillet—blackened and dented— or stirred grits and eggs as sunrise eased over the lagoon.
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percolated = passed water through the coffee in a basket or pouch in order to brew it
- Every time I was with him now, my skin tickled and my brain buzzed and my blood romped around as if it were percolating.† (source)
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
Winifred had the entire poem typed out and mimeographed and distributed to our committee — to get the ideas percolating, she said — and any suggestions from us were more than welcome, though we knew she had the entire thing mapped out in her head already.† (source)
- SCENT OF PERCOLATING COFFEE.† (source)
- The rain had finally eased, and the beginning of a blue day was percolating on the horizon.† (source)
- Colonel Graff, the name of Ender Wiggin has percolated through the high command.† (source)
- Reporters from far-flung cities wired the same observation back to their editors, and stories of delight and awe began to percolate through the most remote towns.† (source)
- I could smell his coffee, and even though it didn't smell as good as Mrs. Windermere's—which she percolated before I came—it still smelled pretty good.† (source)
- All of Jasper's stories about newly created vampires had been percolating in my head since he'd explained his past.† (source)
- Had it percolated gradually through the years until now?† (source)
- Dewey was in the kitchen; Marie, searching for him, found him there, waiting for a pot of coffee to percolate and with the murder-scene photographs spread before him on the kitchen table-bleak stains, spoiling the table's pretty fruit-patterned oil cloth.† (source)
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- Resistance was beginning to percolate even in the rural areas.† (source)
- By midmorning the storm had abated, although a continuous drizzle still percolated through the mist.† (source)
- Inside its percolating depths, the manure fermented, generating scalding heat.† (source)
- He could hear the anger beginning to percolate again, and he raised his hands in an attempt to calm her.† (source)
- My plans were starting to percolate as I marched with the others back into the fantasy world of mad scientists, and that plus the knowledge that Fang was on his way made me almost cheerful.† (source)
- The servants bowed and dispersed, murmuring a little among themselves, and Attolia knew that the news of the mad Eugenides would percolate through the palace, like water through soil.† (source)
- The bloodline was considered eccentric (one Dickman had set herself on fire) and rumours about the family often percolated across Colombo in hushed tones.† (source)
- He didn't refer to the subject again, but Abby herself sort of simmered and percolated all those weeks before Christmas.† (source)
- Nonetheless, Lincoln hears Stanton out, then lets his thoughts percolate.† (source)
- Then we hit it with heavy power and burn some off, let it percolate, hit it again.† (source)
- Then, as electronic music began to percolate into the room, "But there's another angle too.† (source)
- It was not a green SS manual but, rather, a slate-blue Army quartermaster's manual with a title that all but engulfed the paper cover: Improved Methods of Measuring and Predicting Septic Tank Percolation Under Unfavorable Conditions of Soil and Climate.† (source)
- The smoke from the fires inside percolated through the thatch or drifted in clouds from the doorways, so that each had the appearance of smouldering slowly from within.† (source)
- Knowledge does not just come from the top down. It also percolates from the bottom up.
- Even percolated black coffee wouldn't keep you awake, if you were reading these.† (source)
- No matter how wet and cold you are, black coffee percolating will get you through it.† (source)
- Then I headed off to Mrs. Windermere's, where I knew the coffee was percolating.† (source)
- He shouldn't have neglected the cut for so long, the floor downstairs must be percolating with germs.† (source)
- The coffee really was percolating at Mrs. Windermere's, and the kitchen was that kind of warm that goes right into you, like a blanket.† (source)
- The son was an abolitionist almost before the sentiment had become a word to percolate down from the North.† (source)
- My mother would pour the coffee and say, perhaps, that it was strong or weak or should have percolated longer or something.† (source)
- She sent him to the little Jewish grocery down the street for the sour relishes she liked so well: tabled in mid-morning they ate sour pickles, heavy slabs of ripe tomatoes, coated with thick mayonnaise, amber percolated coffee, fig-newtons and ladyfingers, hot pungent fudge pebbled with walnuts and coated fragrantly with butter, sandwiches of tender bacon and cucumber, iced belchy softdrinks.† (source)
- Except for the intermittent hiccup of the coffee pot percolating on the stove the house was quiet, breathlessly quiet.† (source)
- Some of it had percolated through the open windows, some had whitened the roses and gooseberries of the wayside gardens, while a certain proportion had entered the lungs of the villagers.† (source)
- For Bella, who was the family's chief source of gossip, gathering the most of it from the Snedeker School, through which all the social news appeared to percolate most swiftly, suddenly announced: "What do you think, Mamma?† (source)
- No residents were left in Moscow, and the soldiers—like water percolating through sand—spread irresistibly through the city in all directions from the Kremlin into which they had first marched.† (source)
- From then until the eighth century, legends of Troy percolated, mixing with older stories of mainland wars such as the tale of the Seven Against Thebes (parts of which are recalled by Iliadic heroes) or the legends of Herakles (who is credited with an earlier sack of Troy).† (source)
- From Roundwood reservoir in county Wicklow of a cubic capacity of 2400 million gallons, percolating through a subterranean aqueduct of filter mains of single and double pipeage constructed at an initial plant cost of 5 pounds per linear yard by way of the Dargle, Rathdown, Glen of the Downs and Callowhill to the 26 acre reservoir at Stillorgan, a distance of 22 statute miles, and thence, through a system of relieving tanks, by a gradient of 250 feet to the city boundary at Eustace…† (source)
- Some were condensing air into a dry tangible substance, by extracting the nitre, and letting the aqueous or fluid particles percolate; others softening marble, for pillows and pin-cushions; others petrifying the hoofs of a living horse, to preserve them from foundering.† (source)
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