...But, believe me, Raoul, I reserve for myself a victory which shall cost her floods of tears... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
... The characteristics of the rainy season in this wonderfully humid region may account in some measure for the periodical floods of the Zambesi, and perhaps the Nile...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Three such floods are expected annually, but this year there were four...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Of course when the rain ceases, the floods as quickly subside,the rivers and dongas dry up, and the country once more resumes itsnormal sun-cracked appearance...
J. H. Patterson 「The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures」
...There were no signs of human industry near the river, as, during its floods, it inundates the country on both sides...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...As usual, it has a bar; within the last few years the right bank has been carried away by the floods, and some of the old factories are under water...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...The next morning, poor Cynthia told me what had past, and bewailed hersad fate with floods of tears...
William Wells Brown 「The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave」
...When rivers flowing through astretch of level country are swollen during thespring floods, they overflow their banks, oftencarrying along large numbers of fishes...
Frederic A. Lucas 「Animals of the Past」
...The beaver appears to be distributed in considerablenumbers all over the western half of Kansas,although the spring floods sweep away their damsalmost every season...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...It can drink nothing from the floods of therainy season...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...Above,was the roar of waters descending; below, theanswering roar of the floods, as they rolled madlyonward, carrying in their strong arms the wreck offarms, and corpses by the score...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...Diving into the depths, she avoidedwith scarcely an effort the tangled rootsand branches, that, washed thither bythe floods, had long been the dreadof anglers when heavy fish were hooked...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...The average annual cost (in 1951 prices) of floods inKansas from 1926 to 1953 was $35,000,000...
James Everett Deacon 「Fish Populations, Following a Drought, in the Neosho and Marais des Cygnes Rivers of Kansas」
...Only one specimen wastaken in muddy or sandy habitat (at the mouth of a small creek atStation 53-S), where it may have been washed by floods just priorto my collecting...
W. L. Minckley 「Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, Kansas」
...) Atthis stage it appeared that the crevice, or at least its upper part,had been filled by river floods and a slight ridge of sand thrownacross the mouth of the cave...
Gerard Fowke 「Archeological Investigations」
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