Don't stir--you'll promise?--I'll see after your father."
They went out of the house together, and did not return the whole night. That night, February 5, 1795, was one long remembered at Norton Bury. Bridges were destroyed--boats carried away--houses inundated, or sapped at their foundations. The loss of life was small, but that of property was very great. Six hours did the work of ruin, and then the flood began to turn. It was a long waiting until they came home--my father and John. At daybreak I saw them standing on the doorstep. A blessed sight!英文原著 · 《John Halifax》
In the middle of the month of September last year I received, through the grand-duke's special commission of inquiry, whose humanity you have already appreciated, your dear letters of the end of August and the beginning of September, which had such magical influence that they inundated me with joy by transporting me into the inmost circle of your hearts.英文原著 · 《Karl Ludwig Sand》
The manifestations of this kindness increase as the time approaches for our going and we are inundated with invitations of all kinds.英文原著 · 《Letters from England》
"O love of the first lover, O divine,"
Said I forthwith, "whose speech inundates me
And warms me so, it more and more revives me,英文原著 · 《Paradiso》
Unspeakable love and joy irradiated the whole being of the bishop as he seized God's hand and clasped it desperately with both his own. It was as if his nerves and arteries and all his substance were inundated with golden light....英文原著 · 《Soul of a Bishop》
HERBERT. You can say that for the moment, since Thackeray and Dickens have just died. But it does not affect the general estimate. We are inundated with a flood of weak writing. Take the Sunday- school literature, largely the product of women; it has n't as much character as a dried apple pie. I don't know what we are coming to if the presses keep on running.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-1》