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pouring

/ˈpɔɹɪŋ/ adjective C2
  1. Flowing or falling intensely. · pouring rain
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She saw a woman in a white dressing-gown pouring a liquor from a phial into her glass.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 999 · C1
In a very few moments it was necessary for Elaine to scramble to her feet, pick up her cloth of gold coverlet and pall of blackest samite and gaze blankly at a big crack in the bottom of her barge through which the water was literally pouring.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 223 · C1
the ladies had crowded round the table, where Miss Bennet was making tea, and Elizabeth pouring out the coffee, in so close a confederacy, that there was not a single vacancy near her which would admit of a chair.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 320 · B2
IT was broad daylight when Anne awoke and sat up in bed, staring confusedly at the window through which a flood of cheery sunshine was pouring and outside of which something white and feathery waved across glimpses of blue sky.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 37 · C1

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