165 collocations for flood

The sun was flooding Billie Bradley's room when she awoke the next morning, and she sat up in bed with the feeling that it must be very late.

And something we didn't come for," answered Billie, while the color flooded her face and she felt like a criminal.

A great light flooded John Randolph's soul.

A little of that water, which in the countries farther north produces inundation, comes as far south as 20° 20', the latitude of the upper end of the lake, and instead of flooding the country, falls into the lake as into a reservoir.

However, it is only in his more recent work on Human Origins that he thus comes forward as an historian, in preparation for which he seems to have devoted himself to the study of cuneiform and hieroglyphs and mastered the subject thoroughly and exhaustively, before bursting forth from behind the clouds to flood the world with new-born light.

The sun flooding the wide fields of timothy and clover and fresh young grain with glory; falling with a soft radiance upon the comfortable mansion of the master of Hollywood Farm, with its spacious barns and long stretches of stabling, and throwing loving glances among the leaves of its deep belt of woodland where the river sparkled and soft rugs of moss spread their rich luxuriance over an aesthetic carpet of resinous pine needles.

In substance the Canal works consist, first, of an enormous dam (at Gatun), which holds up the water of the river Chagres so as to flood a valley twenty-four miles long; secondly, of a channelnine miles in length(the Culebra Cut)which carries the valley on through a range of low hills; and, thirdly, of a set of locks at each end of this stretch of water that are connected by comparatively short approaches with the sea.

The moon rose up above the pines, and flooded earth and sea with silvery splendor.

Surely a very dark, terrible, angry God, who was easily and suddenly provoked to drown their cattle and flood their lands.

I bought my fashionable practise at the cost of knowing it was I who taught young Commodus the technique of wickedness by revealing to him all its sinuosities and how, and why, it floods a man's mind.

She lifted the pantry window and opened the blinds; noon sunshine flooded the place, and she began opening cupboards and refrigerators, growing hungrier every moment.

"It's a good thing," said his father at breakfast, "that you didn't flood the house, Willie!

vainly fears Thy flooded cheek to wet them with its tears; No tears can chill them, and no bosom warms, Thy breast their death-bed, coffined in thine arms!

The sunshine flooded the landscape on every side.

" Her face flushed at these last words, and fire flooded her eyes.

The evening peace, which lay on the fields and hills, had flooded even the village streets.

The heavy rains had flooded the woods, and the deep worn game trails that we followed were half full of water, while the open meadows and tundra that we occasionally crossed were but little better than miniature lakes.

And on his upturn'd brow the clear moon shone, Flooding his heart like pale Endymion; But still the thought hid dimly from his eyes; Its voice came to him on the evening breeze, That flutter'd faintly through his summer dreams He heard it through the flowing of the streams; He heard it softly rustling through the trees.

English manufacturers and all industries would be hampered by an elaborate system of excise which would flood our markets with German goods.

Some of it not much used now, since winter had come, but under Marty's leadership, a skating rink construction gang had thrown up a dirt embankment in a low spot near the creek and then cut a channel far enough upstream to flood about four acres of swamp.

These districts abound in cultivated rice-fields and are intersected by many canals: it was therefore easy, by flooding the ground, to hinder the march of the Austrian troops on Turin.

Water had been made to flood large areas of birch and poplar and tangled swamps of tender willow and elder.

I fancy oft a stir, Of wings seem following her, Trailing a terrible gloom along the oaken floor, As she walks to and fro; Louder the strange sounds grow To a nameless, dreadful horror, that floods the chamber o'er.

The Generals, with one eye on the enemy and the other on the weather, must have been dismayed in the third week of November at the gathering storm clouds which in bursting flooded the plain with rains unusually heavy for this period of the year.

She was swept by the sparkling showers, but the showers were warm, and the combers were not often steep enough to flood her deck.

165 collocations for  flood