aflood

Example Sentences

• "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."