Example Sentences

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You've rested on highly-oiled stairways Too often, when sweet eyes were bright, And somebody's ball dress—not Nellie's— Flowed 'round you in rivers of white.

From Point Lace and Diamonds by Day, Francis

And still the innumerable multitude Flowed onward and increased, until the King Cried in amazement: "Surely Charlemagne Is coming in the midst of all these knights!"

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Concealed from her the labours of his mind, She let him see her blood was great as his, Flowed from a spring as noble, and a heart Fit to partake his troubles, as his love.

From Venice Preserved A Tragedy in Five Acts by Boucicault, Dion

Flowed up the hill and down King William Street, To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.

From The Waste Land by Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

Before his sight Flowed the fair river free and bright, The rising mist and Isles of Bay, Before him in their glory lay.

From The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Bruce, Wallace