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Part of making something feel real is steeping it in the specificity and details that are intimate to someone who lives in a place, is from a place.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2022

The dismalness of serious writers, especially if humanity be their theme, is steeping us in gloom.

From Atlantic Classics by Various

Ribbons, gauze handkerchiefs, &c. are colored well in this way, especially if they be stiffened by a bit of gum-Arabic, dropped in while the stuff is steeping.

From The American Frugal Housewife by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

All nature now is steeping Her sons in sleep,—their eyelids close, All living things in sweet repose    Are sleeping, sleeping.

From Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund O.

The black midnight is steeping    The hillside and the lawn, But still I lie unsleeping,    With curtains backward drawn, To catch the earliest peeping    Of the desirèd dawn.

From Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir by Murray, Robert F. (Robert Fuller)