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Definition of Flow away
1. Verb. Flow off or away gradually. "The water flow aways "; "The water flowed off from the pipe"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flow Away
Literary usage of Flow away
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"And nought but gnarled roots of ancient pines Branchless and blasted, clenched
with Yet ghastly. For, as fast years flow away. The smooth brow gathers, ..."
2. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829)
"... Shiver in sunshine, but his feeble heart Shall flow away like a dissolving thing.
Sweet breeze! Ibou only, if I guess aright, ..."
3. A Greek and English Dictionary, Comprising All the Words in the Writings of by John Groves (1830)
"... to flow away) a discharge, issue, vent; a spring, stream, current; an emanation;
a blight, blast, decay. ..."
4. Our Wonderful Progress: The World's Triumphant Knowledge and Works : a Vast by Trumbull White (1902)
"The fine particles of the graphite flow away with the water through a number of
tanks, collecting at the bottom of these reservoirs. ..."
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