Overflowing

Examples

• Some miles from New Carthage the levee to Bayou Vidal was broken in several places, overflowing the roads for the distance of two miles. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• After this the remaining pap of plaster of Paris is added until the frame is full to overflowing. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Let us not for a moment forget our object and our hope; and they will form a resistless mound to stop the overflowing of our regret for trifles. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And I was that nearest person--brimful of comfort, charged to overflowing with seasonable and reviving words. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• From these basins the water is continually exhaled by the sun in the daytime, which effectually prevents their overflowing. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• There were our Mohammedan servants, a Latin monk, two Armenians and a Jew in our cortege, and all alike gazed with overflowing eyes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I took my aunt in my arms--my overflowing tenderness was not to be satisfied, now, with anything less than an embrace. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Never was such wringing of hands and such overflowing of eyes, since the days of St Niobe, of whom Prior Aymer told us. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The penitential den once set apart for interviews with the House, was now the news-Exchange, and was filled to overflowing. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I observed the speechless panic, the cups shaking in the little hand, and the overflowing teapot filled too full from the urn. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The night had been very wet: large pools of water had collected in the road: and the kennels were overflowing. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• All that she could spare of overflowing love from her parents' memory, and attention to her living relatives, was spent upon religion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But that man never could come within the influence of a subject in the least pathetic without overflowing his banks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• His wit was not more conspicuous than the overflowing goodness of his heart, which he poured in such full measure on his friends, as to leave, alas! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• On this occasion it had been raining heavily, and, when the creek was reached, I found the banks full to overflowing, and the current rapid. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But the overflowing misery I now felt, and the excess of agitation that I endured, rendered me incapable of any exertion. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The flame soon spreads from the wick to the overflowing oil and in consequence the lamp blazes and an explosion may result. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• What happiness is so true and unclouded, as the overflowing and talkative delight of young people. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The subterraneous waters may occasion earthquakes by their overflowing, cutting out new courses, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Of the lady's sensations they remained a little in doubt; but that the gentleman was overflowing with admiration was evident enough. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Her heart was overflowing with tenderness, but it still foreboded evil. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Typist: Stanley