"Pour down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the head-waters of the Rhone and the Seine were cut down and fierce floods began to pour down the valleys each year, bringing destruction to property and crops all along their way. But France has long ago learned the lesson of forestry, and as soon as the danger was seen, the mountain sides were replanted with trees, and since then conditions have ...
— Checking the Waste - A Study in Conservation • Mary Huston Gregory
... tell my lady, when your quests are o'er, That I, away from her, my heart's desire, Yearn for the blissful hour when I shall pour Down at her feet ...
— Armenian Literature • Anonymous
... is the hurry? Just so must Lot have left Sodom, when he expected fire to pour down upon it, out ...
— The Professor • (AKA Charlotte Bronte) Currer Bell
... come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking ...
— Gitanjali • Rabindranath Tagore
... be an hindrance to us in the Performance of that great Duty of Thanksgiving, [1] which, as we are informed by our Almighty Benefactor, is the most acceptable Return which can be made for those infinite Stores of Blessings which he daily condescends to pour down upon his Creatures. When we make Use of this pathetical Method of addressing our selves to him, we can scarce contain from Raptures! The Heart is warmed with a Sublimity of Goodness. We are ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
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