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    1. Feeling flooded back into my body like white water in a dry stream bed after a deluge


    2. A deluge on the walls of Sumer,


    3. “Especially with this deluge


    4. There was a late season deluge so he didn't have to worry about not having coin to get into the pool at the Plaz


    5. There really hadn't been a detectable trace of winter this year, deluge was seeming to give way to spring directly, and even Ekendosa Afternoonday was warm enough for an active body to splash


    6. variant, the survivors of the Deluge were Deucalion and


    7. the Deluge as doctrinal justification


    8. He roared back bold defiance, standing there amid a fresh deluge of lances


    9. We ran and barely reached my door when the deluge began


    10. This layer of water above the atmosphere ( under a gravitational pull that would now be stronger than the force exerted by the electro-magnetic field) would have rained down on the Earth adding to the subterranean water, which was released onto the surface, resulting in a massive deluge that would have covered the entire planet

    11. They answered my deluge with a torrent of their own gunfire, but,


    12. No more debates: time was up and, appropriately enough, the sky was blackened with dense, dark clouds and the rain fell as a deluge


    13. ), seen as the originator of the Protestant movement, taught that Eden was guarded by angels, from discovery and consequent profanation, until the Deluge, when all traces of it were destroyed


    14. Discovered along with a later version was a king list that placed Gilgamesh as the fifth king (post deluge) of Uruk, the biblical Erech, known today as Warka


    15. “All that is definitely known about Nimrod is that he was a Cushite, that he established a kingdom in Shinar, the classic Babylonia…In the Chaldean Epic of the deluge Nimrod has been identified with Gilgamesh” (Amer


    16. together with them, through the waters of the deluge


    17. rightly; When God caused the deluge on Earth, and destroyed all flesh, and four hundred and nine thousand Giants, and the water rose


    18. Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spoke, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, and said to him: 'Go to Noah and tell him in my name "Hide yourself!" and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that the whole Earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come on the whole Earth, and will destroy all that is on it; And now instruct him that he may escape and his seed may be preserved for all the generations of the world


    19. 65 (Enoch foretells to Noah the Deluge and his own Preservation)


    20. Yes, there shall come a great destruction over the whole Earth, and there shall be a deluge and a great destruction for one year; And this son who has been born to you shall be left on the Earth, and his three children shall be saved with him: when all mankind that are on the Earth shall die he and his sons shall be saved; And now make known to your son Lamech that he who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction, which shall come on the Earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the Earth in his days; And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was first consummated on the Earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the Lord, has showed me and informed me, and I have read them in the Heavenly tablets

    21. Then said the Most High the Holy and Great One spoke and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech and said to him: 'Go to Noah and tell him in my name "Hide yourself!" and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that the whole Earth will be destroyed and a deluge is about to come on the whole Earth and will destroy all that is on it; And now instruct him that he may escape and his seed may be preserved for all the generations of the world


    22. Yes there shall come a great destruction over the whole Earth and there shall be a deluge and a great destruction for one year; And this son who has been born to you shall be left on the Earth and his three children shall be saved with him: when all mankind that are on the Earth shall die he and his sons shall be saved; And now make known to your son Lamech that he who has been born is in truth his son and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction which shall come on the Earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness which shall be consummated on the Earth in his days; And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was first consummated on the Earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for He the Lord has showed me and informed me and I have read them in the Heavenly tablets


    23. 15 And those who dwelt on the Earth perished together with them through the waters of the deluge


    24. 20 And I called the eagle and spoke these words to it: 21 'The Most High has made you that you should be higher than all birds; 22 And now go and tarry not in any place nor enter a nest nor settle on any tree till you have passed over the breadth of the many waters of the river Euphrates and have gone to the people who dwell there and throw down this episle to them; 23 Remember moreover that at the time of the deluge Noah received from a dove the fruit of the olive when he sent it forth from the Ark


    25. Baruch said and how does this happen? And the angel said listen the Lord God made three hundred and sixty rivers of which the chief of 8 all are Alphias Abyrus and the Gericus; and because of these the sea does not sink; And I said I pray you show me which is the tree which led Adam astray; And the angel said to me It is the vine which the angel Sammael planted whereat the Lord God was angry and He cursed him and his plant while also on this account He did not permit Adam to touch it and therefore 9 the devil being envious deceived him through his vine; And I Baruch said Since also the vine has been the cause of such great evil and is under judgment of the curse of God and was the 10 destruction of the first created how is it now so useful? And the angel said You ask rightly; When God caused the deluge on Earth and destroyed all flesh and four hundred and nine thousand Giants and the water rose fifteen cubits above the highest mountains then the water entered into paradise and destroyed every flower; but it removed wholly without the bounds the shoot 11 of the vine and cast it outside; And when the Earth appeared out of the water and Noah came out 12 of the Ark he began to plant of the plants which he found; But he found also the shoot of the vine; and he took it and was reasoning in himself What then is it? And I came and spoke to 13 him the things concerning it; And he said Shall I plant it or what shall I do? Since Adam was destroyed because of it let me not also meet with the anger of God because of it; And saying 14 these things he prayed that God would reveal to him what he should do concerning it; And when he had completed the prayer which lasted forty days and having besought many things and wept 15 he said: Lord I entreat you to reveal to me what I shall do concerning this plant; But God sent his angel Sarasael and said to him Arise Noah and plant the shoot of the vine for So says the Lord ; Its bitterness shall be changed into sweetness and its curse shall become a blessing and that which is produced from it shall become the blood of God; and as through it the human race obtained condemnation so again through Jesus Christ the Immanuel will they receive in Him the 16 upward calling and the entry into Paradise


    26. “Our God has spread himself between them and their new cloud! How long this deluge will come from the north, we have no way of knowing, but one thing is obvious


    27. The few survivors of Myserrah’s army that had escaped the cascading deluge continued their frantic charge on into the hills on the eastern edge of this drowned depression


    28. Seeing Marah and Pithios about to be overwhelmed by a virtual deluge of


    29. Then the sky opened up and poured out a deluge on everything under it! Only then did the still


    30. Now they became aware of the huge deluge

    31. slowly to a stop not far away from where the deluge rushed by and close to where the horse


    32. To the north, although at a greater distance, more water from the deluge coursed up an


    33. I am involved in making transportation arrangements and sorting out the deluge of desires which are being collected by my System


    34. “Our God has spread himself between them and their new cloud! How long this deluge will


    35. escaped the cascading deluge continued their frantic charge on into the hills on the eastern


    36. The mail flowed into Washington--the greatest deluge in history


    37. He lanced the lion-creatures in the chest and was covered in a deluge of green blood


    38. Monsoon clouds blanketed the city the following morning, threatening a deluge and fraying tempers


    39. Not just tears but a chest wrenching, sobbing deluge of incoherent muttering, gasps of pain, mucus, saliva and salty water


    40. of foolscap to express that one moment' s deluge, and even then of course the

    41. Naturally, I was awed by this philosophic deluge from such a relatively young man; he was only twenty-two and this was his first year of teaching, which he liked, but was saddened by the impertinence, laziness and lack of moral fibre of most students


    42. He would enslave the world, and with a deluge of blood wash away the present and restore the past!'


    43. He wasn‘t sure the dog would be able to pick up the trail following the deluge promised by the malignant clouds


    44. jected several times a year to a deluge of saltwater when storm surges pushed the


    45. And with the deluge of e-books and reports on the


    46. It might have been thought that the deluge had given him the oppor-tunity to sit and reflect and that the business of the pliers and the oilcan had awakened in him the tardy yearning of so many useful trades that he might have followed in his life and did not; but neither case was true, because the temptation of a sedentary domesticity that was besieging him was not the result of any redis-covery or moral lesion


    47. But one of the many people who regularly brought unpleasant news of the deluge had told her that the company was dismantling its dispensaries to move them to where it was not raining


    48. She saw with quiet impotence how the deluge was pitilessly exterminating a fortune that at one time was considered the largest and most solid in Macondo, and of which nothing remained but pestilence


    49. At that time she had dug deep into her heart, searching for the strength that would allow her to survive the misfortune, and she had discovered a reflective and just rage with which she had sworn to restore the fortune squandered by her lover and then wiped out by the deluge


    50. Feeling her way along through the empty bedrooms she perceived the continuous rumble of the termites as they carved the wood, the snipping of the moths in the clothes closets, and the devastating noise of the enormous red ants that had prospered during the deluge and were undermining the foundations of the house












































    1. Almost every day we Republicans are deluged with advice by the so-called „experts" to stop referring to Obama and his cohorts in the House and Senate as socialists


    2. To force her to marry that monster! She was deluged by the temptation to rail, to scream, to cry in exasperated futility


    3. He deluged these unfortunates with critical memos and impossible-to-achieve demands


    4. deluged with requests for song by George Potter


    5. Snow deluged the house and yard, building up rapidly as they watched


    6. after he had deluged himself with alcohol all day, he would be in the


    7. his Master, the pupil is immediately deluged by a stream of fiery love from


    8. A great spout of blood deluged the sward as the severed member fell, twitching horribly, but even as the sword bit through, the other malformed hand locked in Conan's black mane


    9. His madly slashing saber sheared through it again and again, his ripping poniard tore and rent it; he was deluged with a slimy liquid that must have been its sluggish blood


    10. Images of dead and dying children, tortured women deluged my mind; I could not shut them out

    11. Sarah brought Hien at once to her, putting the girl in Ingrid’s open arms, where she was deluged with kisses


    12. He came right out into the open and was deluged in


    13. “Please!” she cried again and again as more buckets of cold water deluged her


    14. The thunderstorm that had deluged East Prussia had not come that way, and there had been no rain from the look of things for a long while


    15. Kennedy was watching his chance, and when the cafe emptied itself after being deluged between the acts from a neighbouring theatre, he jumped up quickly in the seat, stood on his toes and craned his neck through the diagonally opened transom


    16. The aggressive and arrogant Israelis had better deal fairly with the gentle but newly determined Egyptians, the less gentle Palestinians and the rest of the Arabs and Iranians before they are deluged by a flood of humans or even a nuclear holocaust


    17. Making it half literal and half metaphor, has opened the flood gates of delusion, and had deluged the human mind with mystery and confusion, where simple truth should have painted a solemn and far-reaching lesson


    18. His mind became deluged with the distillate of horror when he observed his wife, his sister,


    19. Unhappy events of her childhood that deluged her memory as if in a storm surge


    20. Thrasymachus, when he had thus spoken, having, like a bath-man, deluged our ears with his words, had a mind to go away

    21. By this time the floor was deluged with water, which mingled with the filth and formed a sea of mud


    22. The town was soon deluged with mendacious literature and smothered with huge posters:


    23. "But surely you understand," said Quinn, "what it means for Mona to be deluged with our gifts and unable to modulate her feelings


    24. I heaved them up, deluged the bed and its occupant, flew back to my own room, brought my own water-jug, baptized the couch afresh, and, by God’s aid, succeeded in extinguishing the flames which were devouring it


    25. I briefly related to him what had transpired: the strange laugh I had heard in the gallery: the step ascending to the third storey; the smoke,—the smell of fire which had conducted me to his room; in what state I had found matters there, and how I had deluged him with all the water I could lay hands on


    26. He was seventy-three years of age, and had a red face, and white hair; he deluged himself with scent, and was always smiling like a child


    27. And this is what people of our day and of our circle should understand, in order to avoid the filthy torrent of depraved and prostituted art with which we are deluged


    28. What will be the consequence of such neglect? Sir, the country will be deluged with Treasury notes; these notes will depreciate, like the old continental money—the whole history of which every one, acquainted with the history of the Revolution, knows to be a history of public and private frauds


    1. She had tackled climbing these rocks during spring deluges and winter ice storms


    2. I call the reader’s attention again to chapter 8 (Where in the World is Eden) wherein was described geological evidence of other catastrophic deluges, a portion of which I repeat here


    3. The recent deluges simply hurried things along


    4. ” Pranjit’s mother was giving me all the details and all the valuable information non-stop, I was stunned and mum as a statue, listening her deluges


    5. Yogi Kaka Bhusunda lived during many deluges


    6. ; Plato, Laws) led them to conclude that there had been cycles of civilization in which the arts had been discovered and lost many times over, and cities had been overthrown and rebuilt again and again, and deluges and volcanoes and other natural convulsions had altered the face of the earth


    7. Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator's projection: its unplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacific exceeding 8000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves and surface particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard: the independence of its units: the variability of states of sea: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its sterility in the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its indisputable hegemony extending in square leagues over all the region below the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the multisecular stability of its primeval basin: its luteofulvous bed: its capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble substances including millions of tons of the most precious metals: its slow erosions of peninsulas and islands, its persistent formation of homothetic islands, peninsulas and downwardtending promontories: its alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents, gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric instruments and exemplified by the well by the hole in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation of dew: the simplicity of its composition, two constituent parts of hydrogen with one constituent part of oxygen: its healing virtues: its buoyancy in the waters of the Dead Sea: its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks on


    8. But where there were no city streets and storm drains, the rushing torrents either created temporary lakes or raced through the arroyos that had been carved in the land by centuries of such deluges


    1. O’Connor, Cavanaugh, Phoenix’ largest plaintiffs’ personal injury firm (Sandra Day O’Connor’s husband’s firm) forced us to settle most of them at 25 cents on the dollar by deluging us in discovery documents


    2. Arpello sent his soldiers to arrest the youth, but the people caught him up and fled with him, deluging the pursuing retainers with stones and dead cats


    3. The boy exclaimed revoltingly, his face deluging with anger, but he was now quite aware


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    Synonyms for "deluge"

    alluvion deluge flood inundation cloudburst downpour pelter soaker torrent waterspout inundate submerge flood out overwhelm swamp drown engulf drencher cataclysm catastrophe overflow over-supply

    "deluge" definitions

    an overwhelming number or amount


    a heavy rain


    the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land


    fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid


    charge someone with too many tasks


    fill or cover completely, usually with water