refluence

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"The Inn Album", a dramatic poem of extraordinary power, has so much more markedly the defects of his qualities that I take it to be, at the utmost, the poise of the first gradual refluence.

From Life of Robert Browning by Sharp, William

"The Inn Album," a dramatic poem of extraordinary power, has so much more markedly the defects of his qualities that I take it to be, at the utmost, the poise of the first gradual refluence.

From Life of Robert Browning by Sharp, William

The influx of the flood tossed him like a log forward into the cabin, where he would have drowned but for the refluence of the sinking motion.

From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis

On lighthouses heavily barred doors have been burst outward by the explosive force of the air within, as it was released from pressure when a partial vacuum was formed by the refluence of the wave.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon

The Civil War, indeed, checked the westward flow of population, though it caused no refluence, but after 1870 great progress was made in the creation of new farms and the development of old.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg