flowing

• The spring is flowing, and Women are filling gourds with water. —  The Acorn-Planter A California Forest Play (1916)
• Capotes were there--loose, flowing, and picturesque; and broadcloth tail-coats were there, of the last century, tight-fitting, angular--in a word, detestable; verifying the truth of the proverb that extremes meet, by showing that the cut which all the wisdom of tailors and scientific fops, after centuries of study, had laboriously wrought out and foisted upon the poor civilised world as perfectly sublime, appeared in the eyes of backwoodsmen and Indians utterly ridiculous. —  The Young Fur Traders
• They sang their first choral song CHORUS OF CLOUDS{1 Clouds ever-flowing, conspicuously soaring From loud-rolling Ocean, whose stream{2} gave us birth To heights, whence we look over torrents down-pouring To the deep quiet vales of the fruit-giving earth As the broad eye of ֶther, unwearied in brightness Dissolves our mist-veil in glittering rays Our forms we reveal from its vapoury lightness In semblance immortal, with far-seeing gaze 1 The first stanza is pretty closely adapted from the strophe of Aristophanes. —  Gryll Grange
• However, that was not to be avoided should they get upon our track We had made good nearly a dozen miles, I should think, when we came upon a broad river, flowing, as we supposed, into the sea If we can find a canoe, or a craft of some sort, we may easily reach the coast, and save ourselves a good deal of fatigue," observed Tubbs The rest of the men, who were pretty well knocked up, seemed highly pleased at the proposal. —  The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa
• Looking to the son in the story, we see clearly that the answer was outrageously wicked: it was an evil word flowing from its native spring in an evil heart. —  The Parables of Our Lord

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