Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dear?' This remark so touched him that he gave her the handkerchief at once. It is now to be seen at the Loan Exhibition in Washington." I suppose I told this story with unwonted fervor, for, as I bent tenderly toward her (Lardy was looking), she burst into a flood of tears, and handed me the dripping pocket-hand-kerchief. This I surreptitiously wrung in a corner, and bestowed in my coat-pocket. Before I left that evening she had appointed the day for our marriage, and I had made an eternal enemy of Lardy. As we marmaladed...
...bore the brunt of snow and flood...
...flood of thoughts come...
...beer at Carl's and theatre-parties, the heart of the young being very impressionable. On cutting further, streaks of a simple fluid were discovered, coursing towards the arteries. This phenomenon occasioned much dispute for a time, but it was finally held to be the remains of a flood of religious sentiment, more prominent in boys of tender years, and now fast disappearing. A large swelling, undoubtedly due to love for Simpel's eldest cousin (a young lady of twenty-five), gave evidence of the unfortunate youth's affectionate nature. A trace of respect for college rule and officers...