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Fiammetta, whose wavy tresses fell in a flood of gold over her white and delicate shoulders
— Giovanni Boccaccio
But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.
— Kate Morton
My whole life changed after I drowned and died in the flood.
— Kerry Alan Denney
It was as if an embankment had been swept away and I (Neel ) were floundering in a flood , trying not to drown in my grief.
— Amitav Ghosh
Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
Every civilization is just an attempt, a best guess...And they're all imperfect, shots in the dark, and they all end in a flood.
— Kevin Emerson
I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.
— Yayoi Kusama
There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
— William Shakespeare
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.
— Anna Komnene
The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.
— Vinoba Bhave
All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood.
— Countee Cullen
Nothing, storm or flood, must get in the way of our need for light and ever more and brighter light. The truth is the light and light is the truth.
— Ralph Ellison
That's how he'd thought of most people - appearing in your life like foundlings on the doorstep, only to be swept away later as if by flood .
— Adam Johnson
You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.
— Emily Dickinson
Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.
— Jean Cocteau
God whose gifts in gracious flood
Unto all who seek are sent,
Only asks you to be good
And is content. — Victor Hugo
Unto all who seek are sent,
Only asks you to be good
And is content. — Victor Hugo
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
— Peter Straub
One by one, the minutes poured in - and even a trickle, as we have come to understand, can eventually add up to a flood.
— Karen Thompson Walker
There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.
— Edmund Morris
Her mind was like a spring-tide in full flood; rich, shining, vigorous, and capable of infinite variety.
— Vera Brittain
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide ... whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
— Carrie Chapman Catt
And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
— Ralph Ellison
Never do what an enemy expects, Dudda. We'll go in at dawn. On the flood.
— Bernard Cornwell
[Humbaba's] sound is like a flood's sound
Slowly forming in the distance,
Then enveloping all other sounds — Herbert Mason
Slowly forming in the distance,
Then enveloping all other sounds — Herbert Mason
But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.
— Jessie Burton
There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering, Swept as a sea-bird out to sea.
— Sara Teasdale
If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.
— Hafez
FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.
— Bill Dedman
This is an essential element of the business of being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc of bullshit,
— Michael Chabon
When they married and gave in marriage
They danced at the County Ball
And some of them kept a carriage
And the flood destroyed them all. — Hilaire Belloc
They danced at the County Ball
And some of them kept a carriage
And the flood destroyed them all. — Hilaire Belloc
LUKE: There is a tide in the affairs of Jedi.
Which taken at a flood, leads to the Force. — Ian Doescher
Which taken at a flood, leads to the Force. — Ian Doescher
There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road to get out of the flood.
— Buddy Wakefield
My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.
— Elizabeth Kostova
Sea-foam
And coral! Oh, I'll
Climb the great pasture rocks
And dream me mermaid in the sun's
Gold flood. — Adelaide Crapsey
And coral! Oh, I'll
Climb the great pasture rocks
And dream me mermaid in the sun's
Gold flood. — Adelaide Crapsey
Who is to emerge from the flood if we go under in it?
— Hans Magnus Enzensberger
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
— Ben Bradlee
You don't look at the problem all at once, or it's like being caught in a spring flood under a downpour. You tackle the problem in pieces ...
— Sherwood Smith
Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.
— William Blake
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times
Creation's mighty seed -
For Man has broke the Fellowship
With murder, lust, and greed. — Margaret Atwood
Creation's mighty seed -
For Man has broke the Fellowship
With murder, lust, and greed. — Margaret Atwood
Kiss after wet kiss, he devoured her, almost a full year of pent-up desire
unleashing in one terrible flood. — Miranda Liasson
unleashing in one terrible flood. — Miranda Liasson
By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!
— William Wordsworth
Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!
— John Greenleaf Whittier
All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.
— Edwidge Danticat
The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.
— Mark Helprin
Looking at old photographs inundates you with a flood of nostalgic emotions! And you can't be sure where you want to swim in the deluge of memories!
— Avijeet Das
I would wash the dust of the world in a soft green flood. Here between sea and sea in a fairy wood, I have found a delicate wave-green solitude.
— Arthur Symons
Sometimes life goes by in a trickle and sometimes life goes by in a flood. It's in those rainy seasons you find out how well you can swim.
— Lisa Wingate
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
— Clarence Darrow
You are a flood in my hands.
— Nayyirah Waheed
There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.
— Stephen King
It was an odd bit of doggerel. First the flame and then the flood, in the end it's Blackthorn blood.
— Cassandra Clare
In case there's a fire or a flood, or any act of God.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,
to drown me in thy sister's flood of tears. — William Shakespeare
to drown me in thy sister's flood of tears. — William Shakespeare
In the heart and in the soul, evil takes its wicked toll. When moonlight shines like flowing blood, over the earth, the Daimons will flood
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
To gain unshakable faith in Jesus Christ is to flood your life with brilliant light.
— Richard G. Scott
Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage
— RZA
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
— Simone Weil
Any story is an ocean whose tide begins in a place I can't know, and my life is but a moment in that flood, my part in it only a mote in the flow.
— Ned Hayes
I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.
— Rumi
Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.
— Michael Jackson
She was one of her kind, the most American she would ever be, the last American left in this hundred-year flood.
— Matthew Salesses