In the winter, the mountain snows which fed it came tumbling furiously over the rocks; then its waters rushed madly through the defiles and overflowed the plains.
On the night of the third day it overflowed its banks, and Mr. Peniman and the boys had to spend most of the night guarding their wagons, implements and other property that they might not be carried away by the flood.
With the wealth of mother-love that had always overflowed her gentle heart she soothed and comforted him, told him that he would soon be well, and promised that she would nurse him back to life and health.
At its highest stage Lake Bonneville, then one thousand feet deep, overflowed to the north and was a fresh-water lake.
The delta of the Indus River, India, lies so low along shore that a broad tract of country is overflowed by the highest tides.
Meadows and old forest grounds, with the stumps still standing, are now overflowed by the sea, and fragments of their turf and wood are brought to shore by waves.
Their broad, sandy flats were overflowed by wandering streams, and when subsidence gained on deposition shallow lakes overspread the alluvial plains.
Although she overflowed the town with her sunny presence, her lameness had kept her nearer to "Castle Cluny" than her brother had comprehended.
What was her surprise, therefore, when such an abundant cascade fell bubbling into the bowl, that it was immediately filled to the brim, and overflowed upon the table!
Poor Maria had more than one reason to fear all this was true, too true; so her lip only quivered, and her eyesoverflowed as usual.
Her form roomoverflowed with strangers, and there was a new mistress, whose methods were different from those of Miss Hopkins.
For the first time since his imprisonment, the unfortunate man found a heart to whom he could confide all the bitterness that overflowed in his own heart.
And thereupon he undertakes to explain the lawsuit, and how Count Claudieuse, by stopping the water of the Seille, overflowed M.
It has overflowed stone fences, and even rendered a portion of the highway navigable for boats.
Ducks have their haunts along the solitary places of the river, and alight in flocks upon the broad bosom of the overflowed meadows.
The dyke of Yssel was broken in 1638 by the ice brought down by the Rhine, which, having shut up the passage of the water, made an opening of some fathoms, and a great part of the province was overflowed before the breach could be repaired.
Not infrequently he would try to pour the wine of a cantar into the bottle of a popular air, and if it overflowed and was spilt, so much the worse for the cantar.
From London the Grand Trunk carried us to Windsor on Thursday, October 23rd, where crowds were so dense about the station that they overflowed on to the engine until one could no longer see it for humanity and little boys.
Masses of wounded soldiers in automobiles filled one side of the great square, humanity of both sexes overflowed the other three sides.
For, before his arrival, I had, generally, a larger company than I could well find room for, and my table overflowed with crowds of both sexes.
Near the creek, which runs to the westward of the tent, the land is quite flat, and partly overflowed by the sea every tide.
This crew he found working busily among some overflowed woods.
As the water in the pond above had been drawn low by the morning's work, none overflowed the gate, so the men were enabled to work dry.
Now the river, backing up, rapidly overflowed this flat.
Tears welled up in her eyes and overflowed as she entreated me thus.
But the red-headed man, as I recollect, was contemplating the floor by the door, where six pails of urine solemnly stood, three of them having overflowed slightly from time to time upon the reeking planks.
One heard their names everywhere in the massed throng that had overflowed the big stand, the lawn, the free field, and broken in human waves upon the green velvet of the infield.
The fountain of her heart overflowed with the excess of joy--and she wept!
This island was situated at no great distance from the shore, and at a remote period was overflowed in one of the encroachments which the Atlantic has made on that part of the coast of Kerry.
The little rivulet, that watered the north-west side of this track of country, had overflowed within these few days; but the ground left by the retreating waters was as firm and solid, as those parts which had not been touched.
The stream here overflowedboth banks, and its course was lost among marshes: its channel not being distinguishable from the surrounding waters.
It appeared to me that the whole of these flats are occasionally overflowed by the river, the water of which is forced up the creek before-mentioned, and which again acts as a drain on the fall of the water.
As we proceeded down the river, the country gradually became much lower in its immediate vicinity; and between four and five miles from our resting-place it was even with the banks, and in some places overflowed them.
Even if you did not weep, why, I fairly overflowedbefore him.
The ocean having forced this passage, it ran at first through the straits with much greater rapidity than at present, andoverflowed the continent that joined Europe to Africa.
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