...This was done by a system of canals, in which the supply ofwater, drawn from the overflow of the Tigris and Euphrates during thespring floods, was stored up to be used when needed...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...He comes in at the window, and traces in my room a square the shape of the window, which lights up the hangings of my bed and floods the very floor...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...But, believe me, Raoul, I reserve for myself a victory which shall cost her floods of tears...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
...At the period of its annual inundation it rises fully twenty feet in perpendicular height, and floods fifteen or twenty miles of lands adjacent to its banks...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... The characteristics of the rainy season in this wonderfully humid region may account in some measure for the periodical floods of the Zambesi, and perhaps the Nile...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Of course when the rain ceases, the floods as quickly subside,the rivers and dongas dry up, and the country once more resumes itsnormal sun-cracked appearance...
J. H. Patterson 「The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures」
...When rivers flowing through astretch of level country are swollen during thespring floods, they overflow their banks, oftencarrying along large numbers of fishes...
Frederic A. Lucas 「Animals of the Past」
...What the Dyaks do not get, the floods and typhoonsget, and the weevils eat the stubble...
John Charles Beecham 「The Argus Pheasant」
...“I hed finished the shanty all but the chinkin’ an’ the buildin’ o’ a chimbly, when what shed come on but one o’ ’m tarnation floods...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...Diving into the depths, she avoidedwith scarcely an effort the tangled rootsand branches, that, washed thither bythe floods, had long been the dreadof anglers when heavy fish were hooked...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...In order to fulfil all these conditions, its house consists first of a large room hollowed in the bank at a level sufficiently high to be beyond reach of floods...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
...The Kamura river is of less size thanthe Tuaba, but it is still a large river and subject toheavy and sudden floods...
A. F. R. Wollaston 「Pygmies and Papuans」
...The drainage from 3 or4 acres of hillside flows over the arch of the entrance and logs 6inches in diameter are carried into it by the surface floods...
Gerard Fowke 「Archeological Investigations」
...This acts as a damagainst encroachment of the river except in the highest floods...
Gerard Fowke 「Archeological Investigations」
...Within the citadel, on thegreat square called Beith-Tebhara, King Abgar VII built, after the inundationof 202, a winter palace, safe from the river floods, and thenobles followed his example...
Various 「The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1」
...There are such things aslocusts, floods, droughts, and frosts in that country...
Various 「Argentina From A British Point Of View」
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