Breaks the banks

Usage examples of floods.

Coming complete with giants and floods, these traditions were eerily similar to those of the far-off Andean region.

However, when I remembered the fixation with earthquakes and floods apparent everywhere in Mexican mythology, and the equally obsessive concern with forecasting future events evident in the Maya calendar, I felt less inclined to dismiss the apparently far-fetched conclusions of the American engineer.

Quite frequently, also, at least two different kinds of disaster may be portrayed as having occurred simultaneously (most frequently floods and earthquakes, but sometimes fire and a terrifying darkness).

Meanwhile, what are we to conclude about the apocalyptic visions of fire and ice, floods, volcanism and earthquakes, which the myths contain?

Perhaps this is why so many of their myths speak with such conviction of fire and floods and times of darkness and of the creation and destruction of Suns.

Indeed, as we saw in Part IV, it was the epoch of dramatic climate shifts, rapidly rising sea levels, earth movements, floods, volcanic eruptions, bituminous rains and darkened skies that was the most probable source of many of the great worldwide myths of universal cataclysm.

And silt collection systems, so that the soil the floods used to carry down here would still reach the basin and renew its topsoil.

In her mind churned images of the previous year's catastrophic floods in the northeastern sections of the Indian subcontinent, mitigated only by the rapid mobilization of hundreds of kinetics when the precog had come in.

You remember the floods last monsoon on the Indian continent and that major shake in Azerbaijan?

Her parents died in the floods in Bangladesh, oh, five or so years ago now.

The sea would lash waves into floods over the ledge and he'd have to bring Delky inside with him.

There was a little here, some over there, but the spring floods had not yet broken loose, and it was all a stagnant muddy brown.

Vast floods began to sweep emerging areas and kept them swamp-like, rising and falling in the agonies of a birth that had not yet materialized.

She did both the planning and the execution, and when the pile from which their lodge would be constructed was nearly finished, and she was eleven pounds lighter than when she started, he indicated for the final time that when the floods came, this would all vanish.

She made no response, for she knew that just as she had done most of the building this time, she would have to do it again if floods ever did come.