Should it happen to be an unusually rainy season, it inundates the great plain which stretches on either side, and converts it into a great lake.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley
"If the origin of the shock is under the sea near the coast any upheaval of the bottom of the ocean that frequently accompanies an earthquake, gives rise to a great tidal wave that frequently inundates the neighboring coast with much damage.
"Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror"
Richard Linthicum Trumbull White Samuel Fallows
Well, it is rather odd, but really nobody seems to hare heard of Rugby, and Trim will have it that it is an imaginary place altogether; but I tell him this is a point on which I must differ from him, as I have actually seen Rugby Well, Rugby, as I was saying, is an extremely picturesque village, almost too picturesque, rising on the brow of a steep hill, with an old church and very quaint parsonage; then there's a splendid torrent, that inundates the place twice a year, but the people are used to it and don't mind it, so it makes no difference, you know.
"Daisy Burns (Volume 2)"
Julia Kavanagh