| 单词 | diluvian |
| 例句 | There are seven sectors covering just 13.3km, which will turn into a slippery hell if 2014’s diluvian weather is repeated. Tour de France 2015: stage four – live! 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z We see, therefore, that Ixtlilxochitl was perfectly acquainted with the diluvian tradition, and if he does not enter into its details, he assigns it an important place in his series of ages. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z On other days, diluvian storms broke in cascades over bare mountains, vomiting forth impetuous torrents, thundering in the valleys. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z It was in one of those natural hollows of the soil, whose frequency seems to acknowledge a diluvian origin, that the little cottage which Sandy once owned stood. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z The diluvian priestesses and regenerated souls were called "bees." The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites 2011-01-28T03:00:23.447Z There are seven sectors covering just 13.3km, which will turn into a slippery hell if 2014’s diluvian weather is repeated. Tour de France 2015: stage four – live! 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Therefore we must needs acknowledge the diluvian tradition to be really indigenous in Mexico and not an invention of missionaries. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z From between them, large drops of rain escaped, and then came more and more, to be followed at last by a diluvian downpour. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Those accumulations of gravel and loose materials, which, by some geologists, are said to have been produced by the action of a diluvian wave or deluge sweeping over the surface of the earth. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Note: “The Great Flood” is traditionally narrated and a diluvian legend seems to underlie it. The Chinese Fairy Book Among the more recent in formation of fossil vegetables, are the bituminized woods; these are often buried to great depths by diluvian action, but are never found in perfect rock. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 In Phrygia the diluvian tradition was as natural as in Greece. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z And you speak of a diluvian formation, which I conclude you would identify with that belonging to the catastrophe described in the sacred writings, in which no human remains are found. Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher The diluvian waters, he supposed, may have issued from the interior of the earth into which they had retired, when in the beginning the land was separated from the sea. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Once more they encountered the diluvian rain, as they ran side by side as hard as they could across the yard. His Masterpiece To the storm succeeded one of those diluvian showers that have already been described. Willis the Pilot The most essential feature of all traditions properly called diluvian is wanting here. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z The catastrophes which produced the secondary strata and diluvian depositions could not have been local and partial phenomena, but must have extended over the whole, or a great part of the surface, of the globe. Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher He had, in fact, arrived at the Isthmus of Portland, a diluvian alluvium which is called Chess Hill. The Man Who Laughs However, such are the facts, and one might suppose himself transported to the extraordinary epochs of the diluvian period. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen Might they not have been of diluvian origin? Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Six days and as many nights passed; the wind, the water-spout, and the diluvian rain were in all their strength. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z The diluvian soil of the Michigan Peninsula is thus added to the wide area of the mastodonic period. 2d. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers This egg is identical with the ark, and from it the diluvian patriarch was born. The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion The air penetrated freely to the interior of the cone, and with it some flashes of lightning, and the loud noises of that storm, that a diluvian rain could not extinguish. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen The earth, upon these occasions, might almost seem to be carried back to the remote period which has been called “the diluvian age.” Dick Sands, the Boy Captain We also hear of a diluvian story among the Eulets or Kalmuks, where it seems to have come in with Buddhism. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z It was then full time to retire, as the guardian of the place was by no means formed to divine our diluvian ideas. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents And still the doe eludes the raging hounds, And still the youths press onward toward the woods, Though the world shudders with diluvian sounds And the rain streams in undulating floods. The Five Books of Youth |
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