Overcome by a flood of recollections, the tears sprang to his eyes.
Indeed, Mademoiselle Marguerite had not given him an opportunity to speak, so rapidly had this long-repressed flood of recollections poured from her lips.
England's policy had been to restrict Irish commercial enterprise, and only men of the calibre of Grattan and Flood could have succeeded in compelling the Government to remove the embargo on Irish trade.
The solid qualities ofFlood were obscured by the brilliance of Grattan, and the senior Parliamentarian had to give place to his youthful colleague.
Grattan had the gift of social popularity, which Flood lacked.
Lord Townshend's attempt was one of many, but fortunately for themselves the Anglo-Irish possessed in Grattan and Flood the two most powerful advocates in Parliament.
Where the flood is checked there you build your dam against another flood.
This held back the flood long enough for the remainder of the army to retire.
Fairshon had a son That married Noah's daughter, And nearly spoiled ta flood By drinking all ta water, Which he would have done I really do believe it Had ta mixture peen Only half Glenlevit!
Mrs. Masters, looking up at the interruption, was caught in this flood of charm and good will.
The year before, the Japanese, adventurers in minor labors, had begun to flood the Santa Lucia tract.
And I certainly did not care to start the banteringflood of questions which I knew Bob could not restrain should I show even the mildest curiosity about her coming.
Then the Prince at the head of his glittering battalions came in person and filled the lotus palace with a flood of golden light.
For the River of Heaven is always full to the brim, and one extra drop of rain causes a flood which sweeps away even the bird-bridge.
But Bimbo, hoe in hand, was so glad to see the rain fall, and the pattering drops felt so cool and refreshing, that he worked on, strengthening the terrace to resist the little flood about to come.
Again an inward monitor warned him it were better to go; but the first flood of the liquor had reached his brain, and the temptation to remain was strong.
The flood of anger passed as swiftly as it had come, leaving him impotent.
In the shadow the face of the spectator crimsoned, the hot flood burned at her ears, a tightness like a physical hand gripped at her throat; but it seemed that her eyes could not leave the figures before her.
Under the compulsion of his will, the white flood of anger had passed, but it only made more difficult the solution of the problem confronting him.
As a wave recedes, the red flood began to ebb from the girl's face.
Because of his consistent recluseness, foregone to-night for her pleasure, Carlisle had meant rather to exhibit Mr. Canning to enraptured eyes than to subject him to a flood of undesired introductions.
The churchyard is a very large one, and the old causeway which was used in times of flood is most picturesque.
Morning had brought a floodof hard common sense to him, as clear as the crisp sunshine that filled the room.
Then he walked on in silence through the vanishing dusk, and when the first grey light of morning dawned, the flood of feeling ebbed, and the clear-headed warrior regained his calmness of thought.
The foremost billows of the flood had now reached Amminadab's house, before which pasture lands extended as far as the eye could reach.
The flood of schemes and passions, which had surged so high during the night, ebbed under the clear light of day.
A flood of light streamed into the vast space, hitherto but dimly illumined by a few lamps.
The endlessflood of misfortunes which overwhelmed unhappy Italy not only ruined everything worthy of the name of a building, but completely extinguished the race of artists, a far more serious matter.
Heretofore, Italian painters had been contented to bathe their pictures in a flood of diffused light, but he experimented also with effects of strong light and shade on the face.
Nor let us forget that it was that very moment of tremulousness which Jesus Christ seized, in order to pour an unstinted flood of praise for the firmness of his convictions, on the wavering head of the Forerunner.
Mark, too, His meek submission, as bowing His head to let the black floodflow over Him.
And that flings back a flood of light on the whole story; and not only warrants but obliges us to take it as being by Him intended for the instruction in their Christian work of these four whom He has chosen to be His workers.
Her first thought was of her brother; the next brought the whole flood of remembrances, and she could not meet his eye.
Lady Martindale spoke of dressing, and conducted her meek shy visitor up a grand staircase, along a broad gallery, into a large bed-room, into which the western sun beamed with a dazzling flood of light.
THE OISE IN FLOOD Before nine next morning the two canoes were installed on a light country cart at Étreux: and we were soon following them along the side of a pleasant valley full of hop-gardens and poplars.
But out of the window the dawn was growing ruddy in a long belt over the hill-tops, and day was about to flood the plateau.
Flood entered parliament the same year as Hutchinson, Hussey Burgh, and Gardiner a few years later, and then came Yelverton and Grattan, and by the power of these resolute anti-Englishers the face of the country was changed.
Duigenan says that all he knew of Flood was that he had been bought by Blacquiere, but he had no doubt that he would have made a better Provost than Hutchinson.
Henry Flood was an eager candidate for the Provostship, and was put off with a vice-treasurership, and a salary of L3,500 a year.
In his personal contests with Mr. Flood (and in the more early part of their parliamentary careers they were engaged in many) he is supposed to have had the advantage.
Another letter, dated 1779, says thatFlood was eagerly canvassing for the post, and that Hutchinson was discontented.
Grattan afterwards fiercely, and not unfairly, assailed Flood for carrying this discreditable measure.
But some little time before the eleventh century, a second flood began to rush from the East.
Nigh forty years have gone by since then; but he has never forgotten the sound of that terrible cry, when his mother, slowly recovering from her swoon, clasped him convulsively in her arms, and wetted his face with a flood of tears.
Moreover, his hair was now so long that it flowed like a flood of gold down towards his girdle, for since Gudruda trimmed it no shears had come near his head, and his locks grew fast as a woman's.
How might he give himself to this boiling flood and not be shattered?
Then they stayed no more, but, running one this way and one that, cast themselves into the flood and swam for the river-edge.
Fort Laramie brings a flood of reminiscences to the western pioneer and his children.
Scarcely had we settled in our new home before there came a mighty flood that covered the waters of the river with wrecks of property.
Will any private training enable him to stand firm against the overwhelming flood of popular opinion?
The swirling, inky flood swept us on past the hushed banks, heights of motionless leaves nearly hiding the gray old rock.
The black water glided sinuous along, its stealthy course every now and again interrupted by rapids, where the sullen flood lashed itself to a passion of whitecaps with a kind of hissing roar.
At the bottom of that gorge untrodden by man, borne by the dark flood that untouched by sunlight coiled snakelike along, we seemed adventured on some unforgotten Styx.
The boat trembled like a leaf, and was trembling yet, when, with nightmare speed, the thing had slipped into the past, and we were shot out into the midst of the seething flood below.
