Meaning of aflood | Babel Free

Definitions

Flooding.

literary, poetic, predicative

Examples

“Mark Antonine getting upon his pate / Th’Imperiall Trinket, Royall Laureate / Doth point his sparkling sword in Holy blood / Drawn from the Saints, Phlebotomizd, aflood.”

“[…] I ſtepped on-ſhore in the evening, concealing myſelf in a buſh near the water-ſide, whence he took me in as the flat paſſed up along with the tide aflood, on having a quarterly wind.”

“In some long rivers it is high and low water in several places at the same time, and there is not an hour in the day, but it is high water at one place or other. A vessel has been known to sail, and to continue her course with the tide aflood, forty-eight hours together.”

“Her wealth hath turned, within her crimson’d hand, / To withered leaves; her glory set in blood; / And foreign swords have reaped her guilty land, / Sluicing her veins, and leaving Spain aflood / In her own gore.”

“Water came in everywhere,—through roof and walls; the floors were aflood.”

“This, the zanca, is more of a stagnant sink than a drainage sewer; since from the city to the outside country there is scarce an inch of fall to carry off the sewage. As a consequence it accumulates in the zancas till they are brimming full, and with a stuff indescribable. Every garbage goes there—all the refuse of household product is shot into them. At periodical intervals they are cleared out, else the city would soon be aflood in its own filth.”

“The Royal Commissioners, the secretary, two reporters, a photographer, and myself constituted the party, and we seven looked out upon Bourke one Sunday evening as it rose from the scrubby plain, and with apprehensive eye beheld the river Darling, which was aflood, and was debating whether to rise four inches more and flood the streets.”

“The great cavalry camps at Port Tampa City are on lowland, and were aflood in less than half an hour—a picture of saturated misery, with the colors, blue, yellow and black, well run together.”

“Men are only gregarious vertebrates, domesticated and evolved, and the chances are large that it was because the Greek girl had in her time dealt with wilder masculine beasts of the human sort; for she turned upon the man with hell’s tides aflood in her blazing eyes, much as a bespangled lady upon a lion which has suddenly imbibed the pernicious theory that he is a free agent.”

“The cabin was aflood with light when she awoke.”

“So matchless, sun of yesterday, / I caught the rapture of its pace, / And followed until aflood in space, / The apocalypse hid earth away— / So matchless, sun of yesterday.”

“Good old fox! good old hounds! On a morning like this, / With the sunshine aflood in the vale, / You feel many a day in the bright month of May / Before this one its glory might pale.”

“Food and drink were aflood in this home that was his.”

“And Teresa, late, strong flower of that spirit, came into life at an hour when the civilized world – in which Spain, Castilian Spain, played a leading part – was about to submit to a tidal wave of change. The Renaissance was aflood in Europe at her birth, the Reformation was gathering up on a curve of coming power, and the Middle Ages were already adrift along the past, in dark recession.”

“And when the squatter hears it / At most he’ll thumb his reins / And say, “Bad Luck!” – and soon the creek / (From an icefield it drains) / Headhigh will soak my shirt and run / Aflood in my dry veins.”

“The lamps burned all night in the tiny three-room cabin among the lashing pecan and sycamore trees, casting shadows into the rain down the slope toward the river aflood in the storm.”

“One stopped. So utterly in one’s tracks. And in the din of other voices all around one’s ears. To see the vast tears aflood in his eyes.”

“[…] sobbing under obscure care here in / tensive care / here arroyos aflood in downcaster plain in purgative night […]”

“He would keep her in his arms now and sweep her over the marble threshold, and she would not have to walk, alone, up this step and this one and this, toward that woman, crablike, stout, huddling upon a cane, gowned throat to toe in navy, her bosom aflood in pearls.”

“Traditional Roman society had been austere and religious in character. Aflood in riches from its many successful conquests, Rome became a festering swamp of greed and corruption.”

“The cottage was a vessel aflood in roused power. Sharp currents nicked over her skin and jagged sparks from the lyranthe’s silver strings.”

““Growing up, Danielle,” he said, aflood in memory, “it wasn’t just Bevo! There were dozens Mom made for me! Dandelion and Buttercup were baby giraffes, sisters, yellow-flower pajamas. Did I tell you?””

“The documents at the time were screaming that we are aflood in oil. In fact, the belief was the price was going to go down to $5.”

“He was aflood in sentiment, watching the infinite ascension of the women’s backs, curved-straight-old-young-wide-narrow, in bright silks and pastel sweaters: the women.”

“When the conceptualists emerged in the 1960s in an affluent society awash in material things and a global village aflood in images, they shared a fervent belief that art should be more than just seen.”

“This is a book of defamiliarizations, a recital of phenomenological possibility aflood in its own formal elegance, like a glass of water made prismatic and strange.”

“But now they were confined to a little bathysphere suspended in a world aflood in disaster.”

“Mouths aflood in stool and chunder bobbed and went under.”

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