Sonnet V A tide of beauty with returning May Floods the fair city; from warm pavements fume Odors endeared; down avenues in bloom The chestnut-trees with phallic spires are gay.
Probably such a peculiar formation arises only at places where the spring floods bring down thick layers of mud, which cover the beds of ice formed during the winter and protect them for thousands of years from melting.
It must remain poised on wing till thefloods have assuaged and the foundations of things have been discovered.
And though from out the bounds of time and space The floods may bear me far, I hope---- Then he stopped suddenly and rose hurriedly to his feet.
Oh, why cannot I fall on your neck, and, with floods of tears and raptures, give utterance to all the passions which distract my heart!
No: it is not the great and rare calamities of the world, the floods which sweep away whole villages, the earthquakes which swallow up our towns, that affect me.
It was here, it may be recollected, that in the year 1875 such disastrous floods took place.
She never suspected how deeply she loved him, till she was forced to part from him for ever: her soul melted within her, and she shed floods of tears.
Floods of rain forced their way through the skylight, and drenched her bed.
Rock by rock the ledges Take the rosy sheen, As the tide of splendor Floods the dark ravine.
Now the misty purple Floods the darkened vale, And the stars come out On the twilight trail.
With hush of apprehension And quaking of the heart, There breed the storms of anger, And floods of sorrow start.
Even so little as an unspoken defence of him shook her to floods of tears.
A very cold moment came, when it seemed that even the above supposition, in the case of a woman who has been married, is shameful to her, a sin against her lover, and should be obliterated under floods of scarlet.
Scared by the blithesome footsteps of the Dawn, Whose blushing smile floods all the Orient; And now bright Lucifer grows less and less, Into the heaven's blue quiet deep-withdrawn.
Great organs surged through arches dim Their jubilant floods in praise of him; And in church, and palace, and judgment-hall, He saw his own image high over all.
A larger reinforcement which they had reckoned upon, was detained by the floodsand frosts, which, for the moment, had made the roads and fivers alike impracticable.
I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday.
E'en the floods that through the channel rush Must not fail in fulness or in gush; And as Senderud, from mountain high, Rises pure, in pureness must it die.
Shall the house through thee be drown'd Floods I see that wildly swell, O'er the threshold gaining ground.
The city of Rome had suffered from storms, and from repeated floods of the river Tiber, which did a great deal of damage to its buildings, and sometimes washed away or spoiled the stores of corn which were laid up in the granaries.
And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell.
And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
The water poured down the sides of the houses and gurgled in floods through the pipes.
I heard no more, but I did not wonder now at the floods that were rising and rising, soon to engulf the whole of this great country.
Suddenly the shutters are pulled back and the sunfloods the world!
Twas night; the floods were out; it blew A winter-hurricane aloof; I heard His voice abroad, and flew To bid Him welcome to my roof.
Floods of sunshine submerged Chilhowee in liquid gold, and revealed that dainty outline limned upon the northern horizon; but over the Great Smoky mountains, clouds had gathered and a gigantic rainbow bridged the valley.
I hear Thy many voices ringing through the glooms Of these green solitudes; and all the clear, Bright joyance of their song enthralls the ear, And floods the heart.
Their notices of these phenomena are almost wholly confined to excessive and exceptional instances of high or of low temperatures, extraordinary falls of rain and snow, and unusual floods or droughts.
The volume of water in the floods of most great rivers is determined by the degree in which the inundations of the different tributaries are coincident in time.
The floodsof the Po occur but once, or sometimes twice, in a year.
Footnote: All the arrangements of rural husbandry, and we might say of civilised occupancy of the earth, are such as necessarily to increase the danger and the range of floods by promoting the rapid discharge of the waters of precipitation.
Hence more vegetable mould is washed away from cultivated grounds in such climates by the spring floods than by the heaviest rain at other seasons.
The King of the Rain descended in floods upon them.
The wind swept over them with extraordinary force, and the tropical rain descended in great floods upon their bare backs and shoulders.
The floods of the great deep were broken up at last, and I had to cry.
At last everything came out all in a rush, mixed up with such floods of tears that I thought mother's heart would melt, and that she would take back what she had said.
I can hardly wait for them, and then, though my pride bids me to be reticent as he is, my heart runs away with me, and I pour out upon him such floods of affection that I am sure he is half drowned.
Then when I feel differently, and can make a nice, glib prayer, with floods of tears running down my cheeks, I get all puffed up, and think how much pleased God must be to see me so fervent in spirit.
In the towns near the sea there arefloods in the month of June and the water comes up into the town.
In the towns farther from the sea it is also very rainy, and usually these floods and rains fall on the day of Saint John.
Overgrazing, soil depletion, drought, and sometimes floods persist as problems for the future.
Natural hazards: winter windstorms; floods Environment - current issues: continues to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (has met Kyoto Protocol target of a 12.
About a third of this extremely poor country floods annually during the monsoon rainy season, hampering economic development.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "floods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
