Word: floods
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most interesting of the Scandinavian stories to us is the one in which a great flood covers the earth and eagles hunt for fish on the tops of tall mountains. Finally the waters ran off the green lands in torrents and left a regenerated world. In fact, the influence of Christianity is plain in many other of the latter beliefs and legends of the ninth and tenth centuries when the end of the world was momentarily expected...
...various languages in which she speaks. Other poems are pictures of European travel, others again reminiscences of happy youth and school days. Mr. Harlow's best work is descriptive and many of his lines are dainty and melodious. The best verses in the volume are "The Hero of Johnstown Flood," a graphic description of an incident of the Conemaugh disaster...
...Church Theological school, Rev. John Worcester will give a series of seven lectures on the creation, flood, and other Bible narrations spiritually understood, on Tuesday evenings, at 7.30, beginning March 10th. The public are invited...