One ray darted, afterwards another, and the sun-as is usual in southern countries, in which there are scarcely any twilight and dawn-did not ascend, but burst from behind the clouds like a pillar of fire and flooded the horizon with a bright light.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Before the boat was pulled to its slippery landing, several inches of water flooded the bottom.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
He'd been working for me two or three months then, in the flooded river, most of the while.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton