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If only the truth might be saved, might swim in this sea of errors which spread like a flood in the wake of the Barbarian onflow!

Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903

They play on their own pivots, dance on their burning curves, keep their eternal chronologies, thread their long lines with angelic precision, coerce erratic forces into line, belt their splendid onflow to the throne of God, and weave in mysterious webs their incomprehensible transitions around the seat and center of universal power.

Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898

The Negro shared in your sorrows and rejoiced in your prosperity, and in the great civil onflow of the age he is your armor-bearer.

Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898

In the onflow of his days, four great facts surround his being.

Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898

Quickly and strongly down through the days of the onflow of the multitudes of aspiring millions, His name, like burnt incense ascending from the golden censers of adoring seraphs, shall be the chorus of the redemption anthem, the life of every song and the sweetness of every verse.

Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898

When one listens for the first time to the musical utterance of a Hawaiian poem, it may seem only a monotonous onflow of sounds faintly punctuated by the primary rhythm that belongs to accent, but lacking those milestones of secondary rhythm which set a period to such broader divisions as distinguish rhetorical and musical phrasing.

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877