Flowed
[fləud]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Flow
Inputed by Hubert
Examples
- This reflection thawed my congealing blood, and again the tide of life and love flowed impetuously onward, again to ebb as my busy thoughts changed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Through the heart of the town a deadly sewer ebbed and flowed, in the place of a fine fresh river. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The tide ebbed, and the tide flowed; the summer went on, and the autumn came. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- 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.
- My thoughts flowed back into their former channel. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- As she spoke, she untied a band, and the golden stream fell over herself and over the chair, and flowed down to the ground. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The rivers flowed with wine and milk: The oaks yielded honey; and nature spontaneously produced her greatest delicacies. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- After the current has flowed for about an hour, the amount of silver which has been deposited is measured. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The burning rivers of oil were a reflection of the golden treasures which flowed into the hands and pockets of thousands as from a perpetual fountain touched by some great magician's wand. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The delicious monotony of life in our calm seclusion flowed on with me, like a smooth stream with a swimmer who glides down the current. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Rivers flowed back towards their sources; peaks and lofty mountains where countless trees had grown for ages rolled crumbling to the earth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And he was very picturesque, at least in Gudrun's eyes, sitting soft and close on the slender red mare, whose long tail flowed on the air. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If a one-inch tap were inserted in the bottom of the vessel so that the water flowed out, it would gush forth with a force of 4. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Her discourse flowed freely; it was gay, playful, eloquent. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In my great-grandfather's time the lake flowed to this place. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Only one indication need be given of the practical resul ts that flowed from Aristotle's scientific work. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Up the line there was a bridge over a stream that flowed into the marsh. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Below this picture was a miniature of William; and my tears flowed when I looked upon it. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Dim I should not say, for the beauty of moonlight--forgotten in the park--here once more flowed in upon perception. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The basin fell to the ground broken, and the water flowed to the feet of Madame Defarge. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Lily's smile again flowed into a slight laugh: her friend's importunity was beginning to strike her as irrelevant. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The course of time had flowed through the interval since the winter peacefully and happily in our new home. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- These streams of nomads flowed by Persia on either side. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His mind was sweetly at ease, the life flowed through him as from some new fountain, he was as if born out of the cramp of a womb. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He began to write, repeating the words as they flowed from his pen. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And meanwhile the stream of events flowed on, with a reciprocal indifference to philosophy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That authority, and those jurisdictions, all necessarily flowed from the state of property and manners just now described. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She sang, and her voice flowed in a rich cadence, swelling or dying away, like a nightingale of the woods. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- On and on it flowed, a current of meaningless sound, on which, startlingly enough, a familiar name now and then floated to the surface. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He suddenly stretched himself up, and, looking earnestly to heaven, while the tears and blood that flowed down his face mingled, he exclaimed, No! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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