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Example sentences for "floud"

Lexicographically close words:
flotillas; floting; flots; flotsam; flotte; flouds; flounce; flounced; flounces; flouncing
  1. With that a floud of teeres gush out amaine; But griefe sends sighs to beat them backe againe: So that the hurt he meant to do his eies, Heart-murdring griefe resists, and it denies.

  2. At three o'clock the host announced from the telephone: "Vane-Basingwell has started from the Floud house.

  3. One bore the address of Mrs. Floud and the other was quite astonishingly to myself, the name preceded by "Colonel.

  4. And again I drank with them, against my better judgment, wondering if I might escape long enough to be put through to Mrs. Floud on the telephone.

  5. Toasts were drunk no end, all of them proposed by Senator Floud who, toward the last, kept almost constantly on his feet.

  6. An hour later, in the Floud drawing-room, I had the supreme satisfaction of displaying to Mrs. Effie the happy changes I had been able to effect in my charge.

  7. This I displayed to Cousin Egbert, who, much pleased with himself, declared that the Honourable George should be taken to the Floud home directly upon his arrival.

  8. Thereafter he had tramped furiously about the town and its environs for some hours, at last encountering Cousin Egbert who escorted him to the Floud home for his first interview with the Honourable George.

  9. Not until we had reached the Floud home did he discover that he had quite forgotten to hand the press-chap Mrs. Effie's manuscript.

  10. To my further relief, the Floud house was quite dark as we approached and let ourselves in.

  11. Floud from their extensive European tour," it began.

  12. By Tantalus that stands in the midst of the floud Eridan, having before him a tree laden with pleasant apples, he being neverthelesse always thirsty and hungry, betokeneth the insatiable desires of covetous persons.

  13. This done from the top of the hill through a privy spout, ran a floud of the colour of Saffron, which fell upon the Goates, and changed their white haire into yellow, with a sweet odour to all them of the Theater.

  14. Hauing found any such, they coniecture by the sight of the ground, which way the floud came that brought it thither, and so giue a gesse at the place whence it was broken off.

  15. Sidenote: A sore floud of high water dooing much harme, called the duke of Buckingh[=a]ms great water.

  16. By this floud the passages were so closed, that neither the duke could come ouer Seuern to his adherents, nor they to him.

  17. Andrews, when the Floud is retired, and the moderate driness of the ground permitteth.

  18. The famous pillars of Seth before the floud had also the like foundation, if they were but antidiluvian Obelisks, and such as Cham and his AEgyptian race, imitated after the Floud.

  19. That the first Plantations not long after the Floud were disposed after this manner, the generality and antiquity of this order observed in Vineyards, and Wine Plantations, affordeth some conjecture.

  20. I make my bonde wyth yow/ that hence forth all flesh shall not be destroyed wyth y^e waters of any floud/ ad y^t hence forth there shall not be a floud to destroy the erth.

  21. And the seventh daye the waters of the floud came vppon the erth.

  22. For behold I wil bringe in a floud of water apon the erth to destroy all flesh from vnder heaven/ wherin breth of life is so that all that is in the erth shall perish.

  23. So that henceforth there shall be no more waters to make a floud to destroy all flesh.

  24. Floud and an Ebbe; or a High-water and Low-water.

  25. And thus the Reciprocations continue, one Floud and Ebb, running 12 hours Eastward, and another twelve hours Westward, till 4.

  26. But the remembrance of the ancient Floud With ease will wash such arguments away.

  27. Returne thee therefore with a floud of Teares, And wash away thy Countries stayned Spots Burg.

  28. What if it tempt you toward the Floud my Lord?

  29. So there wee sate on ground the space of an houre till the floud came.

  30. At break of day wee weighed, the winde being at north-west, and got downe seven leagues; then the floud was come strong, so we anchored.

  31. Then we borrowed on the banke in the channell, and came aground againe; while the floud ran we heaved off againe, and anchored all night.

  32. At seven of the clocke in the morning, as the floud came we weighed, and turned foure miles into the river.

  33. They said Mr. Floud didn't believe there was any bears round, and further said he greatly admired the beagles, even though at first they seriously annoyed his pet kitten.

  34. They come back one day and cheered their mother a whole lot by telling her the pack had been over the pass as far as the house of a worthy rancher, Mr. Floud by name.

  35. But I had heard three or four parties kind of gasping to each other, had they seen what that Egbert Floud was doing in the other room?

  36. Only Sandy and Cora kept right on showing up one Egbert Floud as a party that had much to learn about pulling off a good bazaar.

  37. Brother said, yes; Mr. Floud took the whole thing in a true sporting way, and he hoped the pack would soon be well enough to hunt again.

  38. That was where Egbert Floud come in, though after it was all over any one could see that he was more to be pitied than censured.

  39. All on account of having gone to England from Boston and found out that was how you said it, though Cousin Egbert Floud had tried to be funny about it when shown the name in the Red Gap Recorder.

  40. The one he sent Egbert Floud showed the floor full of beautiful reckless women in the dance and prominent society matrons drinking highballs, and Jeff wrote on it, "This is my room; wish you was here.

  41. Thy benign floud To a bleeding heart that gaspes for blood.

  42. Lo, how the streames of life, from that full nest Of loues, Thy Lord's too liberall brest, Flow in an amorous floud Of water wedding blood.

  43. Souls are not Spaniards too: one freindly floud 15 Of baptism blends them all into a blood.

  44. Thus haue I back again to thy bright name 1 (Fair floud of holy fires!

  45. She comes along Fourth Street in her uniform one morning, fresh from the hands of this hired accomplice of hers, and meets Cousin Egbert Floud and me where we'd stopped to talk a minute.

  46. Cousin Egbert Floud said this Dulcie was some sparrow, but nutty--going out in the cold that way when nothing drove her out.

  47. And by the floud of Anien, the husband did spie Great =Marius=, out of broken graue his head aduauncing hie.

  48. This floud was his sope and nitar to scoure of the filth, to seuer the good from the euill, the wheat from the chaffe.


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