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Then immense works were started for holding up the water which would otherwise have run away to the sea at flood-time and been wasted. We arrive at Cairo very late at night, and when we get to our bedroom we find both beds looking rather like large meat-safes, for they are enclosed in white net curtains. These fall from a top or ceiling resembling that on old four-posters.
In flood-time a tremendous torrent sweeps down the course of the Atbara, and the sudden bends of the river are hollowed out by the force of the stream to a depth of twenty or thirty feet below the level of the bed. Accordingly these holes become reservoirs of water when the river is otherwise exhausted.
It was flood-time on the Yukon. The ice was gone, and the river was up in the town. Back and forth on the main street, in canoes and poling-boats, passed the people that never rested. Often he saw these boats turn aside from the street and enter the flooded square that marked the Barracks' parade-ground.
For instance, when somebody says that children in a marriage are like drift-wood left high on the rocks of a dwindled stream, tokens of a flood-time of passion now gone by. . . ." She did not tell him who had said this. Nor did he ask. But she thought by his expression that he knew it had been Vincent Marsh.
I am all alone and they are so many. And they must win for I can give no more than one woman can. But they are for ever whispering to you of what a woman can give but once in her life each in her own way...." "Kyllikki!" Olof broke in imploringly. But she went on unheeding, pouring out her words like a stream in flood-time. "And they hate me because I thought to keep you for myself alone.
For it is a watercourse of the special kind called riachos, resembling the bayous of Louisiana, whose sluggish currents run in either direction, according to the season of the year, whether it be flood-time or during the intervals of drought.
The sun was up on the twenty-ninth morning of the second month of the over-flow of the Nile, The Egyptians divided the year into three seasons of four months each. Flood-time, seed-time and Harvest.
Then you mean to go there direct?" "Exactly. I ken something o' that Pleasant Valley. There's no' a verra pleasant look aboot it noo a desert o' a place all crags and sand, wi' just a pickle o' trees. It's a branch arm o' the Athabasca, and has been a torrent at some flood-time the time that probably started the legend.
During flood-time the gates of the dam are open; while the flood is subsiding the gates are gradually closed, and thus, in a long season of low water, the reservoir is gradually filled up for use through a system of canals, whereby the waters can be drawn off for irrigation and the main flow of the Nile can be increased.
The town is supposed to be situated on the banks of a river called the Paroo, but we saw no water there, except what passed for it in a tank. The goats and sheep and dogs and the rest of the population drink there. It is dangerous to take too much of that water in a raw state. Except in flood-time you couldn't find the bed of the river without the aid of a spirit-level and a long straight-edge.
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