Raising their eyes and their hands to heaven, they gave it to be understood that God held this sin in horror, punishing it by sending lightning and thunder, and frequent inundations which destroyed the crops.
The Spaniards believe the natives live thus in the trees because inundations are frequent, for these trees are so tall that no human arm could reach them with a stone.
It is now subjected to almost annual inundations from the river and its situation in marshy surroundings renders it extremely unhealthy.
One of those frightful inundations to which the northern provinces were so constantly exposed occurred this year, carrying away the dikes, and destroying lives and properly to a considerable amount.
Were the means of protecting themselves and their country from the inundations of the sea known and practiced by these ancient inhabitants of the coast?
Humboldt states that during the inundations of the Orinoco, alligators have been known to crawl into the streets of Angostura and carry off human beings.
Often, too, they have to struggle for their lives against the sudden inroads of the vast inundations which sweep off their herds and frail habitations.
To this must be added distressing losses occasioned by inundations and epidemics.
Periodical inundations of the Parana, similar to those of the Nile.
It has been remarked that there is a great resemblance in the periodical risings and inundations of the Paraguay and those of the Nile, and there is certainly a striking analogy between the two rivers in many respects.
At the siege of Antioch were their chief disasters; they suffered from hunger, disease, inundations of the Orontes, attacks of the enemy, until the living were hardly enough to bury the dead.
The inundations and the strong defences that the troops have been throwing up will enable a comparatively small number to hold the garrison here in check.
A tract of rich country would be overwhelmed, and none of the Arabs could say how far the inundations would reach.
Supposing these inundations to have happened yearly, we have an easy method of forming an estimate of the rapidity of the elevation of the bed of the Mississippi.
The plain of Biguglia, for instance, was formed by one of those vastinundations which have received the name of diluvial currents, and swept away a great number of species of animals.
In fact, we find traces of one of these inundations in a breccia formed of the fossil bones of animals in the hills near Bastia.
The fosse which enclosed camp I towards the side of the Brenne has disappeared by the inundations of the river.
In the inundations to which this peculiarity in the formation of the valley of Mexico has given rise, a similar succession of events has been always observed.
The function of scenery is to suggest atmosphere and nothing more.
These musicians could not help themselves; as Sancho Panza remarks, "Man is as God made him, and generally a good deal worse.
Such self-sacrifice is not worthy, not beautiful; but, on the contrary, a very ugly and detestable form of lunacy.
Those writers do not deserve attention who contract the isthmus as much as Cleitarchus, according to whom it is subject to inundations of the sea from either side.
The poet mentions a few only of these places, either because they were not inhabited at all, or badly inhabited on account of the inundations which had happened at various times.
During the inundations of the Mississippi the river may at times be seen to eat away acres of land in a single day along one of the outcurves of its banks.
These disturbances, where the shore lands are low and thickly peopled, as is the case along the western coast of the Bay of Bengal, may produce inundations which are terribly destructive to life and property.
In this case the inundations have to find new paths on either side of the obstructed way.
The second division of the lands is the well-raised part of the valley whose level lies above the ordinary inundations of the Brahmaputra.
Others are relics of an earlier geological period, when land areas recently upheaved from the sea were spread at low levels with alternate inundations of salt and fresh water.
The Missouri itself is about five hundred yards in width; the point of union is low and subject to inundations for two hundred and fifty yards, it then rises a little above high water mark, and continues so as far back as the hills.
All have perished in the numerous sieges and inundations which have devastated the city.
These two inundations of civilization, crude, but virile and aggressive, approached each other and entered the passes in the mountains separating them.
Much of the land is really the delta of the "Father of Waters," over which that river spreads out in vast inundations each year.
During high-water stages the Mississippi widely over-spreads its banks and during such inundations of its valley drops much of the silt it previously held in suspension.
But it is now no longer a matter of dispute, it being almost universally allowed, that the inundations of the Nile are owing to the great rains which fall in Ethiopia, from whence this river flows.
These were faced with stone, and raised, near the city, by strong causeys; the whole designed to secure the city from the inundations of the Nile, and the incursions of the enemy.
His great work was, the raising, in every part of Egypt, a considerable number of high banks or moles, on which new cities were built, in order that these might be a security for men and beasts during the inundations of the Nile.
Here, where peace and prosperity reigned, the inundations and war have left a vast expanse of reeds, in which the roads, ruined farmhouses and a few broken trees stand out dismally.
In places, along the Yser, the inundationsdid not give absolute protection.
However, they were held by the inundations which soon spread southwards.
The inundations reached Dixmude, forming an impassable barrier for the enemy.
Similar inundations we have mentioned as having occurred there in Mr. Harper's time, and in 1832 a very remarkable one took place which is fresh in the memories of a few of the citizens.
I have taken up so much space and time in telling you about the inundations and freshets, that I have not time to describe a great many other things which I have seen, that are quite as curious and remarkable as they.
In the case of spreading fire, water is the great friend and helper of man; and in the case of these spreading inundations of water, it is wind that he relies upon.
Some of the inundations caused in Holland by these floods and freshets have been terrible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inundations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
