Lexicographical Neighbors of Overflooding
Literary usage of Overflooding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adam Bede by George Eliot (1893)
"She leaned forward on her elbows, and looked into those dark overflooding eyes
and at that quivering mouth, and saw how the tears came thicker and thicker, ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"She leaned forward on her elbows, and looked into those dark overflooding eyes
and at that quivering mouth, and saw how the tears came thicker and thicker, ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1891)
"... by means of which the transfer of population could be made without the slightest
danger of overflooding her labour market, and with no prospect but one ..."
4. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"But what other woman could have done it! She led superbly. If an Irishman was
present, she kept him from overflooding, managed to ..."
5. A Text-book of Geology for Use in Universities: Colleges, Schools of Science by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1920)
"... as previously described, includes basins more or less enclosed by land, which
the overflooding of the ocean has filled with salt water. ..."
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