Example Sentences

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But, on the other hand, I think it must be confessed that a great deal of the fiction which is deluging the market is the veriest trash, or worse than trash.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

A sullen summer shower, without a smile in it, is deluging gardens and lawns, tender flowers and graveled walks, and is blotting out angrily all the glories of the landscape.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)