Those who advocated the latter opinion, admitted that an extraordinary alteration had been caused in the constitution of the atmosphere by the overflowings of the Rio de La Guayra.
We owe the "Areopagitica," not to the lonely overflowings of his soul, or even to the disinterested observation of public affairs, but to the real jeopardy he had incurred by his neglect to get his books licensed.
The first three only are, or seem to be, spontaneous overflowings of the poetic mind: the others are composed in response to external invitations, and in two instances it is these which stand highest in poetic desert.
Madam le Vasseur who eat a great deal, and with extreme voracity, was subject to overflowings of bile and to strong diarrhoeas, which lasted several days, and served her instead of clysters.
How can the continued overflowings of a susceptible heart suffer it to be incessantly employed in so many little cares relative to the person?
Following the river in your canoe, you reach those parts of the shores that are protected against the overflowings of the waters, and are called levees.
He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject.
Defn: A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills.
We crossed over a low wet swamp, by which its overflowings are doubtless re-conveyed to the river.
The low flats on the immediate borders of the river are evidently formed by washings from the hills and valleys deposited by floods, and the overflowings of the watercourses.
She did, indeed, possess that which, next to the overflowings of a pious heart, confers the purest happiness on this side Heaven.
He keeps overflowings for the elder members of his acquaintance, and in the case of the younger ones does exercise some caution.
For she fluttered round Sir Charles, as Mary Fisher helped divest him of his overcoat, in sympathetic overflowings of the simplest sort.
The overflowings of this basin go under the terrace and down across the garden into the rivulet below.
From such communings as these the selfish would have turned with indifference; but Mary's generous heart was ever open to the overflowings of the wounded spirit.
The brooding note is when He gathers them under His wings, warms their hearts with the comforts of His love, nourishes their souls with close fellowship with Himself, and refreshes their spirits with the overflowings of joy in the Holy Ghost.
The burn, to which important reference will presently be made, is derived from the overflowings of Greenlee-lough.
These periodical overflowings of the Rio Paraguay have long acted the same part in the southern hemisphere, as lake Parima has been made to perform in the northern.
The regularity of these periodical risings of the Orinoco has been long an object of admiration to travellers, as the overflowings of the Nile furnished the philosophers of antiquity with a problem difficult to solve.
His digressions too, theoverflowings of a tender benevolent heart, charmed the reader no less; leaving him in doubt, whether he should more admire the Poet or love the Man.
The deficiencies in one quarter are more than made up by consequent overflowings in another.
South of this is another named the Sinaruco, which also rises in the marshes, and receives an accession to its waters from the overflowings of the Apure and the Arauca, entering the Orinoco between the Capanaparo and the Meta.
What must be the Overflowings of that good Will, which prompted our Creator to adapt Existence to Beings, in whom it is not necessary?
This the old Man does out of the overflowings of his Humanity, though at the same time it renders him so popular among all his Country Neighbours, that it is thought to have gone a good way in making him once or twice Knight of the Shire.
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