Moravia (Ovis argaloides Nehring), and of the diluvial strata near. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference
This summer the waters of Maine were diluvial, the feeding-grounds were swamped. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
"They are as emphatically drift implements, as any that have appeared in the diluvial matrix of France.". From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The amount of land necessary to yield sufficient water relates to annual rainfall, which varies from parched to diluvial locales. From Wordnik.com. [How to Build Your Own Bass Pond] Reference
The plain of Biguglia, for instance, was formed by one of those vast inundations which have received the name of diluvial currents, and swept away a great number of species of animals. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
But above the diluvial wreck of the Winchester estates there has arisen an estate far more royal and magnificent, and beneath a far-reaching bow of promise, sealed in magical security against a similar disaster. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference
Ascribing this deposit to a single flood, it has been styled diluvial. From Wordnik.com. [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference
However, there was no evidence that this diluvial record was not of the remote past. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation] Reference
The reader will at once recognize Professor Buckland's caves and the diluvial gravel. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference
'In California the whole art of working the diluvial gold-deposits was revolutionised by this new method. From Wordnik.com. [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference
Commentaries, sanctioned by the highest authority, give up the "actual historical truth" of the cosmogonical and diluvial narratives. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
They usually lie on the surface, or are partially imbedded in the soil of our prairies, which is unquestionably of diluvial formation. From Wordnik.com. [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference
A diluvial aerial scene, as flood water covers the land as far as the eye can see, around Taunsa near Multan, Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. From Wordnik.com. [Fore, right!] Reference
This animal is an extinct species of elephant, which, during the diluvial period, was distributed over all northern Asia, Europe, and North America. From Wordnik.com. [From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People] Reference
The Old Town occupies a sloping ridge or tail of diluvial matter, protected, in some subsidence of the waters, by the Castle cliffs which fortify it to the west. From Wordnik.com. [Edinburgh Picturesque Notes] Reference
Large deposits of sand, therefore, must in general be considered as of ancient, not of recent formation, and many eminent geologists ascribe them to diluvial action. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
When the sun-bow was set on the background of cloud over the diluvial floods, the living beings of that age saw a spectrum -- the glorious spectrum of rain and shine. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World] Reference
Beneath the diluvial deposit, we find beds and strata of substances of different character, and which appear on a cursory view to be involved in inextricable confusion. From Wordnik.com. [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference
In some cases their appearance is so similar to diluvial or even alluvial deposits, that they might be mistaken for them, were it not for their more regular stratification. From Wordnik.com. [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference
The victor was still panting from his late exertions, and was more or less diluvial in eye and nostril, but neither eye nor nostril bore the slightest tremor of other expression. From Wordnik.com. [By Shore and Sedge] Reference
Agassiz to show us that the "diluvial scratches" were really glacial abrasions, caused by the great glacier which came down the valley of the Hudson and went to sea off Sandy Hook. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I] Reference
There is a delineation of this very landscape in Hitchcock's Report on the Geology of Massachusetts, a work which, by its size at least, reminds one of a diluvial elevation itself. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod] Reference
From the locality in which the mounds were found it becomes at once evident that the houses which once stood there were not destroyed by inundations and covered by diluvial deposits. From Wordnik.com. [Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan] Reference
For it is a fact very significant in its bearings on the diluvial controversy, that it is in the higher latitudes in both hemispheres that these peculiar deposits are chiefly to be found. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference
The inland sand plains of Europe are either derived from the drifting of dunes or other beach sands, or consist of diluvial deposits, or are ancient sea-beds uplifted by geological upheaval. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
Missouri, where they will ever remain, and be gazed upon by the traveller, as the only remaining evidence of their native beds, which have again submerged or been covered with diluvial deposits. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians] Reference
The whole country northwest of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi, as far north as the falls of St. Anthony, exhibits striking marks of a diluvial formation, by a gradual retiring of the waters. From Wordnik.com. [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference
Loose red sand also constantly forms low hills on the borders of these plains; and it seems to have been derived from the decomposition of the sandstone, and may be a diluvial or lacustrine deposit. From Wordnik.com. [Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2] Reference
With respect to the diluvial invective which overflowed thirty-three pages of the "Nineteenth Century" last January, I doubt not that it has a catastrophic importance in the estimation of its author. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays] Reference
In fact, the antiquity of the present Jordan-Arabah valley, as a hollow in a tableland, out of reach of the sea, and troubled by no diluvial or other disturbances, beyond the volcanic eruptions of Gilead and of. From Wordnik.com. [Hasisadra's Adventure] Reference
Thousands flee floods in China, N Korea forecast warns of another 24 hours of downpours in Liaoning Province, which might add to the diluvial destruction AFP, man stands on a heavily flooded street as a public. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Severe Flooding Hits Northeast China] Reference
I think that we had to wait for Agassiz to show us that the “diluvial scratches” were really glacial abrasions, caused by the great glacier which came down the valley of the Hudson and went to sea off Sandy Hook. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of a Journalist]
"The clear, brilliant, Alpine sky of Embrun, of Gap, of Barcelonette, and of Digne, which for months is without a cloud, produces droughts interrupted only by diluvial rains like those of the tropics. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
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