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Sentences ending with overflow

When they got there they swarmed into the graveyard and washed over it like an overflow. [5]
My heart is so full, it must overflow. [10]
A hatful of rain makes high water in the Neckar, and a basketful produces an overflow. [5]

More example sentences with the word overflow in them

I shall overflow with gratitude at this mark of your royal condescension. [5]
Thy garners overflow with gifts from me. [10]
Thou, O Lord, who didst let the water-flood overflow her, didst not let the deep swallow her up, nor the pit shut its mouth upon her. [6]
A neighboring cauldron was threatening to overflow, and this added to the dubiousness of the situation. [5]
Mark Twain himself was full of the Sellers optimism, and it was bound to overflow, fortify as he would against it. [5]
The inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. [2]
These words from Titian had ennobled his work; they echoed loudly in his soul, and the measure of his bliss threatened to overflow, when no less a personage than the famous Paolo Veronese, invited him to come to his studio as a pupil on Saturday. [10]
Not far from this vast Chamber, where great financial operations are conducted on the highest principles of honor, and with the strictest regard to the Marquis of Dusenbury's rules, there is another less pretentious Chamber, known as "open," a sort of overflow meeting. [4]
Paulus collected all the overflow of the old man's heart in one sentence, and called out his blessings through his two hands as a speaking-trumpet, after his friend's son as he departed to battle. [10]
No thrill of the hunter's trail now drew off the overflow of desire. [11]
Whoever had already succeeded in filling a jar had obtained the water from the overflow which had escaped through the quickly-made dam. [10]
At first the spring had lost itself in a heap of moss-covered granite blocks and afterwards in the earth; but now the overflow and trickling away of the precious fluid had been stopped and a reservoir formed whence the cattle also could drink. [10]
And thus he saw it travel the round of the gentlemen and overflow rearward among the ladies. [5]
If I sometimes run riot and overflow your meadows, I leave fertility behind me when I withdraw to my natural channel. [6]
There were several rows and clusters of shabby frame-houses, and a supply of mud sufficient to insure the town against a famine in that article for a hundred years; for the overflow had but lately subsided. [5]
The people of Rome had endured unimaginable sufferings at his hands; but the cup was full, and, judging from Caesar's looks, he would cause it to overflow this day. [10]
It wasn't all river-bed--most of it was overflow ground. [5]
Roses overflow the retaining walls and the battered and mossy stone urn on the gate-post, in pink and yellow cataracts, exactly as they do on the drop-curtains in the theaters. [5]
Many rivers are quite different in color at their source and at their mouth, and so it was often with her tears; she began to weep for sorrow, and then found it difficult to dry her eyes for sheer overflow of mirth. [10]
Each one a peerless picture, the powerful thinker, the man of action, who permits his restless intellect to repose, and suffers his heart to overflow with the love of youth! [10]
No, I will not say that, but then when one is carried away, infatuated, entranced, with the wonders of the Alhambra and the supernatural beauty of the Alcazar, he is apt to overflow with admiration for the splendid intellects that created them. [5]
This was surprising news; for in low water the river bank is very high there (fifty feet), and in my day an overflow had always been considered an impossibility. [5]
At that very instant Mr. Hunt had been reading in the Guardian the account of an overflow meeting in Newcastle, by his opponent, in which Mr. Crewe had made some particularly choice remarks about him; and had been cheered to the echo. [9]
His truth and his honor, his love of truth, and his love of honor, overflow all boundaries. [5]
Such visions were commonly followed by a vehement and boiling overflow of his hatred against the charioteer, and a whole series of fervent prayers for his destruction. [10]
When the overflow came they wrote for coffee, for meal, and, in fact, for such little necessities as were required. [5]
When Rowena had at last done all her duty by the people in the parlor, she went upstairs to satisfy the longings of an overflow meeting there, for the parlor was not big enough to hold all the comers. [5]
The Nile had already begun to overflow its banks, and the fields and gardens of the Egyptians were covered with water. [10]
As a consequence, Aleck made imaginary money much faster than at first she had dreamed of making it, and Sally's competency in spending the overflow of it kept pace with the strain put upon it, right along. [5]
He would boil a while to himself, and then overflow and scald me again. [5]
Her face wore a look of unmoved indifference while she submitted to the overflow of a too-happy mother's heart; and she wished the betrothed couple joy: but she did so with a smile that infuriated Neforis. [10]
It made just a comfortable crowd in our parlor, with an overflow into Clara's through the folding doors. [5]

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