Floods

Examples

• Rivers and pipes have their metres, so that now the velocity and volume of rivers and streams are measured and controlled, and floods prevented. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It had fought gamely with floods and droughts, with cholera and panics, with desperadoes and with land thieves. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Let, thenthe rains fall, and the floods descend--only I must first get rid of this basket of fruit. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Yes, answered Gutenberg, it is in effect a wine-press, but it shall shortly spout forth floods of the most abundant and marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to quench the thirst of man. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Alternate frosts and thaws succeeding to floods, rendered the country impassable. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Fresh floods of tears were now forced out for my aunt Martha; however go she would. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Fluctuations in the lake due to floods are controlled by an immense spillway dam built of concrete. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As soon as the news of the arrival of the Union army behind Vicksburg reached the North, floods of visitors began to pour in. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Instances, also, could be given of this having occurred during floods, without any change of level. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• A gigantic battle against floods and torrents, pestilence and swamps, tropical rivers, jungles and rock-ribbed mountains had been fought--and won! Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He sought to drown his sorrow for the defeat in floods of beer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Those surfaces were neither so steep as to be destructible by weather, nor so flat as to be the victims of floods and deposits. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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