... History in the making was like a stream overflowing its banks, events overlapping each other like the waves of an inundation...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...If either could, or if the Teoughe could fill the lake—a thing which has never happened in modern times—then this little arm would prove a convenient escapement to prevent inundation...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... The water of inundation covers even these lofty banks, but does not stand long upon them; hence the crop of trees...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...There was much sickness in the town, and no wonder, for part of the water left by the inundation still formed a large pond in the centre...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Even the plains between Linyanti and Sesheke had not yet been freed from the waters of the inundation...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...It is therefore not yet the period of the central Zambesi inundation, as we were aware also from our knowledge of the interior...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... The course of the Nile being in the opposite direction to this, it does not receive these subsidiary waters, and hence its inundation is recognized all the way along its course...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... Whilst crossing the stream, we easily understood how the river was supposed to be in a perpetual state of inundation...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...Tuckey supposes that the inundation must produce a spectacle which justifies the high- flown description of the people...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...In situations where there is danger of inundation, the floor of the interior is raised higher, and frequently terraces are made to admit of a dry seat, in case the ground-floor should get flooded...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...” He too, like Osiris, is a godof the life that springs from inundation and that dies down in the heatof the summer...
Jane Ellen Harrison 「Ancient Art and Ritual」
...The soil of Egypt, periodically washed by the inundation, is a black,compact, homogeneous clay, which becomes of stony hardness when dry...
Gaston Camille Charles Maspero 「Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt」
...Lions inEgypt were regarded as symbols of the sun when passing through thezodiacal sign of Leo, the time when the annual inundation of the Nileoccurred...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...duringthe three months of the inundation, when ordinary labour would beat a standstill); and on this scale the pyramid building occupiedtwenty years...
Anthony M. Ludovici 「Nietzsche and Art」
...What we seeresembles the yearly inundation of the Nile, of which to a spectatorin space the river itself might be too narrow to be seen, and only theverdured country on its banks be visible...
E. Walter Maunder 「Are the Planets Inhabited?」
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