The influx of the flood tossed him like a log forward into the cabin, where he would have drowned but for the refluence of the sinking motion. From Wordnik.com. [Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ] Reference
Its disappearance from the stage of time is not an extinction of essence -- a reduction to nonentity; it is only a refluence into its original source. From Wordnik.com. [Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity] Reference
"The Inn Album," a dramatic poem of extraordinary power, has so much more markedly the defects of his qualities that I take it to be, at the utmost, the poise of the first gradual refluence. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning] Reference
“The Inn Album,” a dramatic poem of extraordinary power, has so much more markedly the defects of his qualities that I take it to be, at the utmost, the poise of the first gradual refluence. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning]
On lighthouses heavily barred doors have been burst outward by the explosive force of the air within, as it was released from pressure when a partial vacuum was formed by the refluence of the wave. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
The masterful waves, as you may know, have for many ages flowed from the West; but now, the old Roman impetus having at last spent itself, a refluence is to set in, and the East in its turn pour a dominating flood upon the West. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference
And, like the refluence of a mighty wave. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference
Rose from the fluctuant refluence of its ranks. From Wordnik.com. [Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition)] Reference
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