When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.King James BibleWhen thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned;...
drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws ...
I shall not thee forget.” History has remembered thee; especially that meek and humble petition of thy old planters, like the wailing of the Lord’s own people, “To the gentlemen, the selectmen” of Concord, praying to be erected into a separate parish. We can hardly credit that so ...
The explanation for this is that in some cases higher flood levels cause flooding depths that exceed the height of the embankments on the downstream end of the dike ring area, thus causing overflow of those embankments and the flooding of the adjacent dike ring area as well. This snowball or...