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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as onflow.

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Examples

  • And these characters move in a plot that is both leisurely and powerfully onflowing.

    Archive 2004-05-01 2004

  • He dispensed with declamation, he avoided bitter words, he refused to crack the party whip; but with a deep, onflowing volume of argument and exhortation, his animated expressions, modulated and well balanced, stirred the emotions and commanded the closest attention.

    A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

  • Touched by the enthusiasm of the onflowing religious movement,

    The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene

  • It was a fog in the streets, on which darkness was already settling -- streets without a lamp or a sound except that from the onflowing trains.

    Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Arthur Ruhl 1905

  • So the effect which any new event or experience, happening for the first time, is to have upon us depends upon the way it fits into the current of these onflowing influences.

    The Story of the Mind James Mark Baldwin 1897

  • They went, and sat on the embankment, in a silence broken only by the distant sound of the millstones and the plash of the onflowing river.

    Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

  • Mr. Wade, with his hat well back and his famous rifle in his hand, formed them across the pikes all armed with heavy revolvers and facing the onflowing torrent of runaways, who were ghastly sick with panic, and this little band, worthy of the heroes of Thermopylæ, actually kept back the runaway army, so that "for the fourth of an hour not a man passed save

    A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland Sarah Ellen Blackwell

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