Word: flood
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...bathe again in the burning flood...
...seems strange that coxswains do not learn to take more advantage of tide and wind. During flood-tide there must be a current of one mile an hour at the least, and by avoiding half of that by keeping near the wall, during the ten minutes on the home stretch, a gain (if these premises are right) of 264 feet would be made. When the tide is running out at the rate of four or five miles an hour in mid stream, still greater loss or gain might be made by the steering...
...rosy cheeks blushed through the golden flood...
...include the Northern capital, which is the life of the South at the present time. The writer, if he is interested in facts, will also find that when the Mayor of New Orleans appealed to the North in behalf of the sufferers by a destructive flood in that locality, he received something besides "the cold shoulder...
...Friday of French and Italian a flood...