The year 1882, on the other hand, was marked by a great flood in the lower Mississippi river, with a stage in the Missouri much above the average.
During the year 1882, the year of great flood in the lower Mississippi valley, the outflow at Red River Landing, La.
It was in the same month, and also during a spring-tide, that a great flood is mentioned on the coasts of England, in the year 1099.
Frazer, Ancient Stories of a Great Flood (the Huxley Memorial Lecture, 1916), Roy.
A third story of a great flood, regarded in Greek tradition as the earliest of the three, he would explain by an extraordinary inundation of the Copaic Lake in Boeotia, which to this day is liable to great fluctuations of level.
Under such conditions the story of a great flood in the past would not be likely to die out in the future; the tradition would tend to gather illustrative detail suggested by later experience.
With the god's apparent subterfuge in the third of these supposed versions Sir James Frazer (Ancient Stories of a Great Flood, p.
The observation of shells, corals, and other remains of aquatic animals, in places above the level of the sea, and even on high mountains, may have given rise to legends of a great flood.
The first world ended with a great flood, in which a few persons, to wit, eight, were saved by being carried over in the ark from the old to the new order of things that God established immediately after the flood under Noah.
That mysterious person, the oldest inhabitant, witnessed a great flood in the north of England, wholly unprecedented in his life time.
Becoming visibly more impatient, he repeated contemptuously to Si'Wren, "I said, What is this talk we hear from our captives of a great flood?
The trader related that, according to the Patriarch Noah, God was going to send a great flood to judge the world.
An ark made so far from any body of water, intended for the day when a great flood such as no man had ever witnessed should cover the whole earth!
A great flood, which occurred in his reign, has been considered synchronous and identical with the Noachic Deluge, and to Yau is attributed the merit of having successfully battled against the waters.
And in this year, because of a great flood of the river Arno, the Ponte Vecchio fell, which also was a sign of future adversities to our city.
How there was a great flood of waters which carried away the Santa Trinita Bridge and the Carraia Bridge 245 Sec.
How there was a great flood of waters which carried away the Santa Trinita Bridge and the Carraia Bridge.
How there was a great flood of waters in Florence, which overwhelmed part of the Poggio de' Magnoli.
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