Once the flood fades away, the city is redistributed in a new arrangement and a postdiluvian landscape emerges. From Wordnik.com. [Floating New Orleans to weather the storm | Inhabitat] Reference
Plato in the form of a myth, but it was a myth more or less harmonious with Greek folklore, and the birth of the postdiluvian race from stones. From Wordnik.com. [CYCLES] Reference
But in the financial crisis of 2007-08 a mighty real-estate bubble burst, and today the country is still stumbling like a dazed man through the postdiluvian landscape of recession. From Wordnik.com. [History, Horses and the Luck of the Irish] Reference
But in the financial crisis of 2007-'08 a mighty real-estate bubble burst, and today the country is still stumbling like a dazed man through the postdiluvian landscape of recession. From Wordnik.com. [Finding the Next Winner] Reference
Egypt, because of its antiquity and the affinities of the hiero - glyphs to Chinese characters, was identified by some as the center from which the great postdiluvian migra - tion to the East began. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
(Per has also the form of pel, as pellucid.) Post, after, as postdiluvian. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
(Compare Job 28: 5, end). which are now -- "the postdiluvian visible world.". From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Gathered, paper-bag waisted trousers in washed silks were cinched with belts and cuffed above the ankle for a distinctly postdiluvian look. From Wordnik.com. [The Bellingham Herald: Sports News] Reference
If all the inhabitants of the postdiluvian world are, as the Scriptures teach, descended from Noah, they must, indeed, have used one and the same language. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
In the fourth series, which gives the names of the antediluvian and postdiluvian patriarchs, Cainan has been inserted according to the Septuagint reading; the Hebrew text does not contain this name. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Despite the heroic civic engagement demonstrated by thoughtful and intelligent New Orleanians during a busy and stressful era, the postdiluvian plandemonium faces daunting odds of ever bearing fruit. From Wordnik.com. [Design Observer: Main Posts] Reference
Stephen would have attained the maximum postdiluvian age of 70 Bloom, being 1190 years alive having been born in the year 714, would have surpassed by 221 years the maximum antediluvian age, that of Methusalah. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
When Bunsen has settled Egyptian chronology to the satisfaction of other literati as well as to his own, and when Hindoo and Chinese accounts of their postdiluvian or antediluvian ancestors have been reconciled and synchronized, we may hear some objections to. From Wordnik.com. [An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800] Reference
Hellenistic and humanist views of the ancient Brahmins and Goths, French-Enlightenment debates over the postdiluvian origins of the arts and sciences, and the Indophilia and protonationalism of Herder, Robert Cowan focuses on turning points in the development of an. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome] Reference
At Garden District Book this Saturday, Sept. 25 at 11:30 am author Jean Redmann will read and sign Water Mark, the lastest installment in her Micky Knight mystery series, this one tied to solve the reasons behind the death of one of the many bodies found in the flooded homes of postdiluvian New Orleans. From Wordnik.com. [Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans] Reference
What men know to be practicable, a thousand motives will incite them to try; and there is reason to believe, that from the time that the generations of the postdiluvian race spread to the seashores, there were always navigators that ventured upon the sea, though, perhaps, not willingly beyond the sight of land. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces] Reference
He marched captive an unbroken line across the flood, ravaged the postdiluvian ages, swept through the rising generations, crushed the empires of the Mediæval dispensations, corrupted the streams and broke the trend of modern civilization, and ever defies the discoveries of materia medica and the deep ken of modern sciences. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,] Reference
Whether it's the heroism of domestic beasts routing their bipedal oppressors ( "Four legs, good; two legs, bad!"), the gossip and scheming 'round the postdiluvian barnyard, or the conflicting recollections and sudden purges which gradually erode and transform the collective memory of great deeds and purposes, it's all played out in ensemble style. From Wordnik.com. [The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper] Reference
Patriarchs, ten postdiluvian; seventy descendants of Jacob are named on the occasion of Israel's going into Egypt, though some of them were dead at that time, others had not yet been born; the ethnographical list of Genesis enumerates seventy nations, though it gives some names of little importance and omits others of great importance; I Par., ii, 3-55, gives seventy descendants of Juda; I. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
In 1936 when Bloom would be 70 and Stephen 54 their ages initially in the ratio of 16 to 0 would be as 17 1/2 to 13 1/2, the proportion increasing and the disparity diminishing according as arbitrary future years were added, for if the proportion existing in 1883 had continued immutable, conceiving that to be possible, till then 1904 when Stephen was 22 Bloom would be 374 and in 1920 when Stephen would be 38, as Bloom then was, Bloom would be 646 while in 1952 when Stephen would have attained the maximum postdiluvian age of 70. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
That in that true, original Eden some of the early generations of men attained to a stature and longevity unequaled in any countries known to postdiluvian history is by no means scientifically incredible. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Smoky God, or: A Voyage to the Inner World] Reference
Patience antediluvian, patience postdiluvian, patience in times Adamic, Abrahamic, Mosaic. From Wordnik.com. [New Tabernacle Sermons] Reference
170, 165, and 165, as against 130, 105, 90, 70, 65, and 65 as stated in the Hebrew, and the same systematic difference of 100 years in the period before the birth of the first-born appears likewise in the lives of the postdiluvian patriarchs, Arphaxad, Sale, Heber, Phaleg. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
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