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  • My homemade controls though amounted to no more than a gentle foot-drag on this force that ran in mountainous torrents, a sandbag levee on the Peedee River in floodtime.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • My homemade controls though amounted to no more than a gentle foot-drag on this force that ran in mountainous torrents, a sandbag levee on the Peedee River in floodtime.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • The heads were faintly suggestive of elephants ', round, with beady eyes, large erect ears that doubled as cooling surfaces, a short trunk that was a chemosensor and a floodtime snorkel, small down-curving tusks on the males.

    A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969

  • Astor M'Kree had made a queer addition to the side of Stee Jenkin's house by building against one end of it part of an old fishing boat which had been wrecked in the floodtime, and stranded on the bluff upon which the little house was perched.

    A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods Bessie Marchant 1901

  • "Now thou knowest!" and the torrent of black horns, foaming muzzles, and staring eyes whirled down the ravine just as boulders go down in floodtime; the weaker buffaloes being shouldered out to the sides of the ravine where they tore through the creepers.

    The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • It was as if, given a chance to use her native tongue again, words she’d known long ago rushed back to her like a creek at floodtime.

    Betrayed! Patricia Calvert 2002

  • It was as if, given a chance to use her native tongue again, words she’d known long ago rushed back to her like a creek at floodtime.

    Betrayed! Patricia Calvert 2002

  • It was as if, given a chance to use her native tongue again, words she’d known long ago rushed back to her like a creek at floodtime.

    Betrayed! Patricia Calvert 2002

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