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

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

Its disappearance from the stage of time is not an extinction of essence—a reduction to nonentity; it is only a refluence into its original source.

From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Patterson, Robert

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

"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