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Sentences ending with flood

He said he would follow it up with a list of the previous plays of the kind, and in his innocence would have carried them back to the Flood. [5]
I'd had luck with Nick before; but--well, there it is, Flood. [11]
The dread returned when the party approached again the turmoil of the American Fall, and fell again under the influence of the merciless haste of the flood. [4]
On my right was the St. Lawrence swelling on its course, hundreds of feet beneath, little boats passing hither and thither on its flood. [11]
Hast thou covered up his footsteps with thy flood? [11]
It pierced the tumult of waters, found the ambushed rocks, and guided the lithe brown arms and hands, so that the swift paddle drove the canoe straight onward, as a fish drives itself through a flume of dragon's teeth beneath the flood. [11]
From this point to the Mississippi River, fifteen miles, there is not a spot of earth above water, and to the westward for thirty-five miles there is nothing but the river's flood. [5]
Her heart seemed to stand still, and then the hot blood flowed into her face in a crimson flood. [4]
Yet all the time she longed for Eglington to come and say one word, which would be like touching the lever of the sluice-gates of her heart, to let loose the flood. [11]
His footsteps hast thou covered with thy flood? [11]

Short sentences using flood

What brought you, Flood? [11]
That's why I've come, Flood. [11]

More example sentences with the word flood in them

When I read your letter first, a flood of fire seemed to run through my veins; then I became as though I had been dipped in ether, and all the winds of an arctic sea were blowing over me. [11]
Hopeless husbands and wives were cast up like driftwood by the cruel, resistless flood of modern civilization--the very civilization which yielded their wealth and luxury. [9]
Book-agents visit it with other commercial travelers, but the flood of knowledge, which is said to be the beginning of sorrow, is hardly turned in that direction yet. [4]
They flood me with high-priced invitations to write for magazines and papers, and publishers besiege me to write books. [5]
Other voices mingled with hers--lamenting, cursing, and entreating; for now the rainclouds burst, and through the window-openings poured a cold flood, chilling and wetting the drunken mob within. [10]
We are inundated with a flood of weak writing. [4]
Are there pages where he ceases from posing, ceases from admiring the placid flood and flow of his own dilutions, ceases from being artificial, and is for a time, long or short, recognizably sincere and in earnest? [5]
One can laugh when misery and danger are over, and it would be easy to turn this matter into ridicule, but from that hour to this the wooden cross which turned the flood of my feelings then into a saving channel has never left me. [11]
The moon, which, when I took possession of my new apartments, was invisible, gradually gained each evening upon the darkness of the night, and at length rolled in full splendor above the towers, pouring a flood of tempered light into every court and hall. [4]
In the days when Flood Ireson was drawn in the cart by the Maenads of Marblehead, that fishing town had the name of nurturing a young population not over fond of strangers. [6]
Excitement and adventure were as the breath of life to him, and since he had played his little part at the Jersey battle in a bandbox eleven years before, he had touched hands with accidents of flood and field in many countries. [11]
Of course the water was nowhere as clear or of as fine a complexion as it is in some other seasons of the year; for now it was at flood stage, and therefore dimmed and blurred by the mud manufactured from caving banks. [5]
In their eyes was the livid lightning that searched in spasms of anger for its prey, while there swept over the brown, aching veld the flood which filled the spruits, which made the rivers seas, and ploughed fresh channels through the soil. [11]
Overhead, the sun was pouring out a flood of light and warmth, and though it was bitterly cold, life was beating hard in the bosom of the West. [11]
The officer, who was greatly impressed by the gentleman's looks, led him at once to a trestle bridge which spanned the distance from the levee bank over the flood to a house up to its first floor in the backwaters. [9]
But the effort was beyond him, and the flood within him broke loose. [9]
His blood was up-a turgid, angry flood almost bursting his veins. [11]
Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. [6]
There were hoarse tones in her voice, usually so clear and musical, which betrayed the emotion raging in her breast as she assailed the young Macedonian noble with a flood of questions. [10]
It was pitiful to see the strong man tossing on the flood of disordered understanding, a willing castaway, yet stretching out a hand to be saved. [11]
Now it seemed to pierce his senses and to flood his nerves with feeling. [11]
He was also to flood the city with "literature. [9]
New Orleans intended to fittingly celebrate, this present year, the bicentennial anniversary of this illustrious event; but when the time came, all her energies and surplus money were required in other directions, for the flood was upon the land then, making havoc and devastation everywhere. [5]
But it seemed to be impossible to follow Biberli's flood of eloquence to the end. [10]
It was flood tide when Daniel Quilp sat himself down in the ferry to cross to the opposite shore. [12]
Gradually the flood tide of emotion began to ebb, and the confusion of loving exclamations and incoherent words gained some order and separated into question and answer. [10]
This study always throws a flood of light upon the meaning of the text of an old author, the same light that the reader unconsciously has upon contemporary pages dealing with the life with which he is familiar. [4]
It was as though he had discharged into his system from some cells of his brain a flood which coursed like a stream of soft fire. [11]
The loneliness of this solemn, stupendous flood is impressive--and depressing. [5]
No matter what they say, I can't help agreeing with him about this great flood of "poetry," as it calls itself, and looking at the rhyming mania much as he does. [6]
The first day there is slush with rain; the second day, mud with hail; the third day a flood with sunshine. [4]
She had watched the tiny fragments burn in a fire not hotter than that in her own eyes, which presently were washed by a flood of bitter tears and passionate and unavailing protest. [11]
A flood under the surface, a tidal river-what? [11]
They pour into the mind in a flood. [5]
They were in the mid-stream; the cold flood surged about their waists. [4]
He glanced around the little room,--at the bed in the corner, in which the Judge slept, and which during the day did not escape the flood of books and papers; at the washstand, with a roll of legal cap beside the pitcher. [9]
He paused on the levee to survey with concern and astonishment the flood of waters behind it, and then asked an officer the way to General Sherman's headquarters. [9]
Between two of the larger buildings was wedged a room dedicated to the worship of Bacchus, to-day like a narrow river-gorge at flood time jammed with tree-trunks--some of them, let us say, water-logged--and all grinding together with an intolerable noise like a battle. [9]
It had been the gift of Diana Welldon on a certain day not long ago, when Flood Rawley had made a pledge to her, which was as vital to him and to his future as two thousand dollars were vital to Dan Welldon now. [11]
In another hour the gates of St. John and St. Louis emptied out upon this battlefield a warring flood of our foes. [11]
The pressure within the fort, like a flood, opened the gates of it, despite the sturdily disapproving figure of a young man who stood silent under the sentry box, leaning on his Deckard. [9]
Others danced on the flood, taking the sun on their sails, and went away with good promise of a long voyage. [4]
Next we had the Flood, and the Ark tossing around in the stormy waters, with lofty mountains in the distance showing veiled and dim through the rain. [5]
So, where was the flood to come from? [5]
She could see the flood surging, swelling--saw it lapping round her own house, her own feet; drops of sweat bedewed her forehead and hands from terror at the mere thought. [10]
That hour at the entrance to Deception Pass had been the climax of her suffering--the flood of her wrath--the last of her sacrifice--the supremity of her love--and the attainment of peace. [13]
The tide of the artist's happiness was at flood, now. [5]
So it is that war, like a devastating flood, creeps insistent into the most sacred places, and will not be denied. [9]
He is in that ecstasy of mind which prompts those who were never orators before to rise in an experience-meeting and pour out a flood of feeling in the tritest language and the most conventional terms. [4]
Suddenly Tarboe understood that between him and John Grier there must always be a flood. [11]
As Erris Boyne talked to him, the memory of Sheila flooded his mind, and on the flood his senses swam like swans. [11]
Its little throat swelled, it chirruped, it trilled, it called, it soared, it lost itself in a flood of ecstasy. [11]
I had always supposed that torture brought out the truth--everybody supposed it; and when Joan came out with those simple common-sense words they seemed to flood the place with light. [5]
We canvassed the subject awhile and then concluded it was a ruse, and that the Indians had some better reason for leaving in a hurry than fears of a flood in such an exceedingly dry time. [5]
Presently the Overland stage forded the now fast receding stream and started toward Carson on its first trip since the flood came. [5]
Otherwise it would soon look here as though the plagues of locusts, flood, and fire had visited us at once. [10]
Every prophecy, every Sibylline text, every oracle must be false if the overthrow of that image could remain unpunished--if the destruction of the universe failed to follow, as surely as a, flood ensues from a breach in a dyke. [10]
The setting sun shining full on the window had roused the bird, and he began to pour out a flood of delicious melody which flowed on and on, causing the people in the street to stay their steps and look up. [11]
As soon as she was alone she sat down on her bed, rested her elbows on her knees, and her head in her hand, and the growing and surging flood of her passion broke out in an abundant stream of warm tears. [10]
For an instant she seemed not to comprehend, and then a flood of motherly feeling overcame her. [4]
A crimson blush sent its rich flood through her cheeks, and she exclaimed: "There, good-by, Mr. Fitz Clarence; I must go now! [5]
The flood of schemes and passions, which had surged so high during the night, ebbed under the clear light of day. [10]
She crossed the room to the electric switch, turning on the flood of light, picked up her tote-book and sat down again. [9]
Impeded by the rocks, the flood hesitated and even ran back, as if reluctant to take the final plunge! [4]
Now speaking, now rocking their bodies to and fro, in the evening sunlight, they sat and watched the Nile in flood covering the wide wastes of the Fayoum, spreading over the land rich deposits of earth from the mountains of Abyssinia. [11]
Then suddenly she remembered to whom she was speaking, and a flood of feeling ran through her; for Swift Wing had cherished her like a fledgeling in the nest till her young white man came from "down East. [11]
Mr. Ballou made remarks of similar purport, and began the reform he could not live to continue, by throwing away the ancient pack of cards that had solaced our captivity during the flood and made it bearable. [5]
Fuller, however, always ready for an emergency, sent out a flood of complimentaries to the school-teachers of New York and adjacent territory, and the house was crammed. [5]
The stories they read, if they read at all--the novels, so called, that they have been brought up on--are the diluted and feeble fictions that flood the country, and that scarcely rise above the intellectual level of Jimmy and the absorbed pig. [4]
And, instead of qualms, I felt nothing but relief, joy that I had been swept along by the flood of feeling. [9]
The whole ride probably occupied only a quarter of an hour, but what a flood of thoughts and feelings swept in this short time through Barbara's soul! [10]
He ascribes the present dilapidated condition of Stonehenge to the operation of the general deluge; for, he adds, 'to suppose it to be the work of any people since the flood is entirely monstrous. [6]
As the flood, pouring into the valley, sweeps everything before it, the people, rushing to seek vengeance, forced every one they met to join them. [10]
There was no pause in the broken, turgid torrent, which was like a muddy flood pouring over the boulders of a rapid. [11]
It was the passion of her life, the time when her whole nature went to flood tide and swept away all barriers. [5]
His mind was overflowing with thought as a river in the season of flood, and was full of floating fragments from an endless variety of sources. [6]
The storm was over, but the flood swept far and wide. [11]
When it was opened, the music and singing would pour in a full flood to those seated around the board. [10]
Still, there is one other sign; it comes last, but when it does come it establishes beyond cavil that the "flush times" are at the flood. [5]
Some rocked quietly on the gleaming waves, others boldly swung themselves on the backs of the bearded Tritons, and merrily urged them through the flood. [10]
Then he walked on in silence through the vanishing dusk, and when the first grey light of morning dawned, the flood of feeling ebbed, and the clear-headed warrior regained his calmness of thought. [10]
The flood comes on apace, That deep dividing river, and her face Grows dimmer as it widens--pale, so pale. [11]
Her wildest thoughts of vengeance were as inseparable from tender pity and the warmest longings of a heart overflowing with love, as the dark waters of a river are from the brighter flood of a stream with which it has recently mingled. [10]
By an effort of the will they send through the nerves a flood of feeling which is half-anaesthetic, half-intoxicant. [11]
On the edge of the rapids, above the hotel, the old bath-house was in process of demolition, its shaking piazza almost overhanging the flood. [4]
In the days of the flood I'll bring the olive leaf. [11]
The foremost billows of the flood had now reached Amminadab's house, before which pasture lands extended as far as the eye could reach. [10]
By the light of the camp-fires there appeared a wide weltering flood of logs and debris. [11]
Such a number of medical periodicals no private library would have room for, no private person would pay for, or flood his tables with if they were sent him for nothing. [3]
Once the sight of her school friend, Ethel Wing, chatting with a tall young man, brought up a flood of recollections; again, in a millinery establishment, she came face to face with the attractive Mrs. Maitland whom she had seen at Hot Springs. [9]
The wide flood of Emerson's discourse has a hundred rivers and thousands of streamlets for its tributaries. [6]
With a moan of agony he felt the dolorous flood above his shoulders, and then a cry pierced the gloom and the loathsome misery, and a voice he knew called to him, "David, David, I am coming! [11]
This present flood of 1882 Will doubtless be celebrated in the river's history for several generations before a deluge of like magnitude shall be seen. [5]
He spoke her name again, his voice thick with the passion which had overtaken him like a flood at the sight of her--a passion to seize her in his arms, and cherish and comfort and protect her forever and ever. [9]
I stood with my hand on the cock, so to speak, ready to turn it on and flood the midnight world with light at any moment. [5]
I sit with my back to all this, taking the entire force of this winter sun, which is full of life and genial heat, and does not scorch one, as I remember such a full flood of it would at home. [4]
Yet it was moving in a mist and on a flood of greater happiness than he had ever known. [11]
Or was it mere coincidence that the next day a great storm and flood did sweep through the valley of the Popri, putting life in danger and submerging plantations? [11]
The bluffs shone May-green in the western flood of light, and a haze hung over the bottom-lands. [9]
The smaller discoveries made in the colony of New South Wales three months before had already started emigrants toward Australia; they had been coming as a stream, but they came as a flood, now. [5]

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