A clean up of the study presently washed a fresh spate of the Food into the puddle, and overflowed it, and carried all this sinister expansion of the struggle for life into the adjacent pool under the roots of the alder.
The Lord sent thatspate to wash the scales frae her een.
That sadder day when we beheld again A spate going down in sunshine after rain When the blue reach of water leaping bright Was one long ripple and clatter, flecked with white.
Right ahead of them appeared the foam-flecked back of the Suck, like a river in spaterushing out into the smooth waters of a lake.
As the poignancy of his regret dulled to a steady ache, he became deeply interested in the boys who sported in the gutters and sailed ships of wood and paper in every spate and thunder-shower.
For the great floods were but a tradition, and only the old men had seen the ruin which the spate could work.
Your nowt may die--the spate may bear away Frae aff the howms your dainty rucks of hay.
That sadder day when we beheld again A spate going down in sunshine after rain, When the blue reach of water leaping bright Was one long ripple and clatter, flecked with white.
For where we had been hitherto, only the blue dry fire had ringed us, but here we ran into a downpour as though the fountains of the deep of heaven had broken up and were falling in a white spate upon the world.
Ken Water is very low at that season, and looking over I could see the fish lying in the black pools with their noses up stream, waiting for a spate to run into the shallows of the burns.
In the months following the directive, officials of the NAACP and other organizations shot off a spate of requests for the imposition of off-limits sanctions against certain businesses and schools and in some cases even whole towns and cities.
Supporting these conclusions was a spate of newspaper reports of segregated establishments in certain areas of Okinawa and the neighborhood around an Army barracks near Frankfurt, Germany.
If he is the man you have drawn for me he will never be letting a smirr of rain interfere with his plans; and as for the other road, it will be a river in spate by this time," the Highlander reassured me.
No sound came to us but the sloshing of the rain out of a sodden sky and the noise of falling waters from mountain burns in spate (flood).
Ay, I hef seen tons of coal waiting for them at Invershin for near a fortnight when there wass a heavy spate on the ruvver.
Aw, well, there uss a boat; and if there's a spate on the ruvver they can come and go; but not with the heavy things.
A twenty-five-foot spate must have wrought pretty havoc in the valley!
We had good cause to congratulate ourselves on the absence of rain in the mountains, for had the streams been in spate we should have had no resource but to follow the example of the expectant rustic, and wait for them to run down.
It was Amos; he'd lossen his footing on the stepping-stones going across Wharfe, and the spate had carried him downstream and drowned him.
I was flaid that if he had a drop too mich he'd happen lose his footing on the plank-bridge at the town-end, and then the spate would tak him off his feet and drown him.
Spate could rise to an emergency; the other committeemen thanked him with their eyes.
Spate laughed through his beard: "Lord, I reckon the company would rent it to you for almost the price of the taxes.
He knew that some Mrs. Spate had so distributed them, if it were not the same who had hectored him, for old Spate had a habit of marrying again.
All disliked the task, but finally Spate broke the silence.
He never knew that the President suggested stopping a moment to congratulate him, and that it was his own old taskmaster Spate who ventured to say that the President could meet him later.
Not but what Wakefield is enterprising," Spate added, anxiously.
Shelby paused to price some of the vegetables, just to draw Spate into conversation.
A look from Spatesilenced him, but the President had not caught the slip.
Not but what Wakefield is enterprising," Mr. Spate repeated.
Risk, affecting nonchalance now that his spate of oaths was by, and he pulled the rum out of the locker and helped himself and his mate to a swingeing caulker.
We've got to get enough power together to send some sort of miniature transposer out to Centaurus and Aldebaran, and then have regular interstellar transposition routes and a spate of worlds for everybody to move to who feels like it.
But nobody would believe it if a spate of astonishing technological improvements began to appear in the United States.
About midday, in confirmation of the old Peruvian's words, the first of the expected spate revealed itself in a sudden acceleration of the current and a change in the appearance of the water, which became turbid with mud in suspension.
He dropped his hold on Lelas and stood looking across at Yanni a minute, while new life ran in spate through his veins.
Not only was every rill and stream and river in the North in spate but the bogs of the mountains were so saturated with wet that many days must elapse before they could cease to send their quota to swell the streams.
Consequently, the water from his mill pond was now making a temporary spate in the little stream, which, in the course of nature, had caused many salmon to run their noses into the burn's unexplored meanderings.
How many hundreds of salmon one may thus see in the course of a couple of hours, on a day when the river is in spate too heavy for the fish to succeed in ascending the cauld, it is impossible to estimate.
