Flowing

Examples

• There were only these few words in her neatly flowing hand:-- I have told Mrs. Casaubon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• IV The course of this narrative, steadily flowing on, bears me away from the morning-time of our married life, and carries me forward to the end. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• These springs are usually the result of water flowing over a deposit of salt rock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The two gentlemen, refreshed by their bath and a hearty meal, were now arrayed in loose, flowing robes of white wool, similar to that of Justinian. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The blood-flowing had made Margaret conscious--dimly, vaguely conscious. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But the Stamp Act affair was only one eddy in a turbulent stream flowing towards civil war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Each one of these lines is assumed to have a certain strength, and the power of any magnet is determined by the number of lines of force flowing through it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And arterwards, crushing a flowing wine-cup--which I allude to brewing rum and water--we'll pledge one another. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A current of cold water is kept flowing around the pipes in E, coming in through a pipe at one end and passing out through a pipe at the other end. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The straining of the imagination always hinders the regular flowing of the passions and sentiments. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He sat now by the stream watching the clear water flowing between the rocks and, across the stream, he noticed there was a thick bed of watercress. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It comes of flowing on so quiet, and of that there rippling at the boat's head making a sort of a Sunday tune. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• By which means we conceive the future as flowing every moment nearer us, and the past as retiring. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The purpose is not sole ly to bring the arts to perfection, but all mechanical experiments sho uld be as streams flowing from all sides into the sea of philosophy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

Typist: Shane