Barry S. Sternlicht, the hotel dealmaker who two years ago seemed able to walk on water, today finds himself soaking wet.

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Or if anyone had told him that a great chunk of the north-east was cold, dark and soaking wet.

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There was a tiny new donkey, soaking wet from amniotic fluid, hugging close to Jeannette, my most recently acquired Sicilian donkey.

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Not only is it miserable to walk and sleep for 3 or 4 days with everything you are wearing soaking wet, it is also dangerous.

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"There was a dreadful roaring behind them as they stumbled, half blind, frightened, soaking wet, through miles of paddy, sinking into thick mud while trying desperately to outrun the ever-pursuing monster, " Winchester tells us.

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Meanwhile, the lavish bathrooms--with rain-shower bars, benches and deep soaking tub--are suitable for just about any wet treatment as well as manicures and pedicures.

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