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    inundation


    1. His single refuge from the inundation of celebrity was the time he still cherished with his sisters


    2. They slowly learned to tell the story evermore completely of how they had survived the great catastrophic inundation, even the “Great Flood


    3. This new knowledge of the intellect came into conflict with the keepers of the old, as a virtual inundation of facts has threatened to overwhelm them as well as the rest of us


    4. 47 And it was after this that the brook of Egypt was filled above all its sides, and all the inhabitants of Egypt went out, and also the king and princes went out with timbrels and dances, for it was a great rejoicing in Egypt, and a holiday at the time of the inundation of the sea Sihor, and they went there to rejoice all the day


    5. 47 And it was after this that the brook of Egypt was filled above all its sides and all the inhabitants of Egypt went out and also the king and princes went out with timbrels and dances for it was a great rejoicing in Egypt and a holiday at the time of the inundation of the sea Sihor and they went there to rejoice all the day


    6. inundation to make it float, the ratio of length,


    7. there was once an inundation which wiped out almost all of mankind


    8. ” She paused, closing her eyes against the inundation of tears she knew would roll down her face


    9. On receiving any information of any fire, inundation or any accident in the


    10. What people call consumer culture is simply the inundation of mass media and mass marketing trying to sell you something

    11. the rapid inundation of all coastal and low lying areas


    12. Their three heads had been close together during this brief discourse, and it had been as much as they could do to hear one another, even then: so tremendous was the noise of the living ocean, in its irruption into the Fortress, and its inundation of the courts and passages and staircases


    13. Here and there, especially at first, the inundation started on them and swept by; but when they had done descending, and were winding and climbing up a tower, they were alone


    14. But he did not long abuse my patience, for the objects before him had now put him by all his, and, coming out with that formidable machine of his, he lets the fury loose, and pointing it directly to the pouting-lip mouth, that bid him sweet defiance in dumb shew, squeezes in his head, and, driving with refreshed rage, breaks in, and plugs up the whole passage of that soft pleasure-conduit pipe, where he makes all shake again, and put, once more, all within me into such an uproar, as nothing could still, but a fresh inundation from the very engine of those flames, as well as from all the springs with which nature floats that reservoir of joy, when risen to its floodmark


    15. Every pore inside the boys' cheeks became a spouting fountain; they could scarcely bail out the cellars under their tongues fast enough to prevent an inundation; little overflowings down their throats occurred in spite of all they could do, and sudden retchings followed every time


    16. It was that first, redoubtable moment of inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the water begins to filter through the fissures of dike


    17. The inundation of 1802 is one of the actual memories of


    18. I will ask, what would be the case if such laws had not been passed by the States? Sir, if it requires all our care to prevent an inundation from such bank paper as is acknowledged to be genuine, for Heaven's sake do not risk the security of the people, by an indirect sanction of such as is known to be spurious!


    19. Within the citadel, on the great square called Beith-Tebhara, King Abgar VII built, after the inundation of 202, a winter palace, safe from the river floods, and the nobles followed his example


    20. This church was destroyed by the inundation of 201, was then rebuilt, being the only church in the city, suffered from the inundation of 303 and was rebuilt from its foundations in 313 by Cona, bishop of Edessa, and his successor Sa'd

    21. In 525 the church was overthrown by an inundation and then rebuilt by Justinian in such splendor as to be regarded as one of the wonders of the world


    22. Justinian restored and rebuilt many buildings after the inundation of 524-25


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    Synonyms for "inundation"

    alluvion deluge flood inundation torrent drencher cataclysm catastrophe downpour overflow

    "inundation" definitions

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


    an overwhelming number or amount