"Flood in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Local Collection is the Norfolk and Norwich Photographic Survey Record which was inaugurated in January, 1913. Shortly after the disastrous flood in Norfolk and Norwich during August, 1912, the Committee favourably considered a report from the City Librarian on the collection of photographs of everything interesting, valuable and characteristic of Norfolk and Norwich. A conference was convened between a Sub-Committee of the Public Library ...
— Three Centuries of a City Library • George A. Stephen
... face. She had grown very close to the old Indian. And then, as if the flood in her heart was beyond her ...
— Still Jim • Honore Willsie Morrow
... circling flood In what a dangerous dream we stood— The silent sea before us, Around us, all the gloom of grove, That ever lent its shade to love, No ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... sunny shower, Foster'd in the moist breast of March or April, Or such as parched summer cools his lips with. Heaven's windows are flung wide; the inmost deeps Call in hoarse greeting one upon another; On comes the flood in all its foaming horrors, And where's the dyke shall stop ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
... the old and the new; Our hands are bold and strong, and our hearts are faithful and true; Saxon and Norman and Celt one race of the mingled blood Who fought built cities and ships and stemmed the unknown flood In the grand historic days that made our England great When Britain's sons were steadfast to meet or to conquer fate Our sires were the minster builders who wrought themselves unknown The thought divine within them till it blossomed into stone Forgers of swords and of ploughshares ...
— The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems • Kate Seymour Maclean
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