"Outpour" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... became of all the fish? In such a deluge the rivers and seas must have mingled their waters, and this, in conjunction with the terrific outpour from the windows of heaven, must have made the water brackish, too salt for fresh-water fish, and too fresh for salt-water fish; and consequently the aquatic animals must all have perished, unless, indeed, they were miraculously ...
— Bible Romances - First Series • George W. Foote
... a wild outpour of incoherence that did not cease until Grief seized him by the shoulders and ...
— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London
... been actually retarded by the use of rhetoric. An outpour of vehement language seems to release, both in the speaker and in the assenting audience, a part of that energy which ought to issue in action. It has been one of the grave blunders of the Churches that they thought their function ended with the eloquent announcement ...
— The War and the Churches • Joseph McCabe
... the Jackdaw, sitting lonely on that placid bust, spake only That one word, as though in that his policy he did outpour. Not another sound he uttered, but his feathers proudly fluttered. "Ah!" I mused, "the words he muttered other dolts have mouthed before. Who is he who thinks to scare me with stale cant oft mouthed before?" Quoth the bird, ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., August 23, 1890. • Various
... papers had ceased the names, only the amounts—too many names; not enough room. L100,000 subscribed by companies and citizens; if this is true, it must be what they call in Australia "a record"—the biggest instance of a spontaneous outpour for charity in history, considering the size of the population it was drawn from, $8 or $10 for each white resident, babies at ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... will care The faithful loving Father; Who righteous and believing are, He to His rest will gather. Then, people dear, Hope ever here On Him who aye relieves you; His throne before Your hearts outpour, Tell Him whatever ...
— Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs - Translated by John Kelly • Paul Gerhardt
... Freedom lures on with her passionate eyes To the height of her promise, the voices of yore, From the storied Profound of past ages arise, And the pomps of their magical music outpour O'er the war-beaten shore. ...
— War Poetry of the South • Various |
