How To Use Diluvial In A Sentence
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Although, therefore, it may be contended that the swollen carcass of a drowned exotic deer might be borne along a diluvial wave to a considerable distance, and its bones ultimately deposited far from its native soil, _it is not credible that all the solid shed antlers of such species of deer could be carried by the same cause to the same distance_; or that any of them could be rolled for a short distance, with other heavy debris of a mighty torrent, without fracture and signs of friction.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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But, Willy, the supports of life are not to be found in primeval rocks or antediluvial remains.
The King's Own
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It is true that all "Neptunists" (and I used quotation marks on purpose to show that the word was taken in a wider context) did not subscribe to the diluvialist view but it is also true that Guettard was the man primarily responsible for the break-through that clipped the wings of those who did, and of those who did not, like Warner, Saussure, and Jameson, but held that igneous rocks were precipitated out of aqueous media.
Vulcanists & Neptunists
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It may also be remarked that, common as is the occurrence of diluvial animal bones in the muddy deposits of caverns, such remains have not hitherto been met with in the caves of the Neanderthal; and that the bones, which were covered by a deposit of mud not more than four or five feet thick, and without any protective covering of stalagmite, have retained the greatest part of their organic substance.
Essays
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T to pimiento that my chalk was on the new, the afresh antediluvial and, especially of all, the nonvisual.
Rational Review
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Outside the kitchen, I could taste the air and know that a storm would be arriving in six days, catch a snowflake on my tongue and surmise when spring would come or discern the diluvial temperament of the river by sampling its waters.
Archive 2003-11-01
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Leading catastrophists such as them promoted the so-called diluvial theory, which accounted for many geological phenomena by the action of the biblical flood.
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But above the diluvial wreck of the Winchester estates there has arisen an estate far more royal and magnificent, and beneath a far-reaching bow of promise, sealed in magical security against a similar disaster.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
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After all, Bollywood musicals possess the same excessive sentiment and diluvial instrumentation as the modern American musical, but seldom does the former give way to maudlin or milquetoast outcomes.
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The Old Town occupies a sloping ridge or tail of diluvial matter, protected, in some subsidence of the waters, by the Castle cliffs which fortify it to the west.
Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
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There is that fishy loophole in the whole diluvial death wish.
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The studied platinum - gold placer occurs in Quaternary alluvial - diluvial a piedmont valley of ultrabasic rocks, Northwest China.
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The correct designation of the early naturalists who tried to reconcile their observations with Genesis is "diluvialist.
Vulcanists & Neptunists
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The vapors gradually condensed in diluvial rains, which fell as if they had leapt from the necks of thousands of millions of seltzer water bottles.
The Underground City
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The amount of land necessary to yield sufficient water relates to annual rainfall, which varies from parched to diluvial locales.
How to Build Your Own Bass Pond
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This summer the waters of Maine were diluvial, the feeding-grounds were swamped.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
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These numbers defy uniformitarian mechanisms and are much more consistent with a diluvial mechanism.
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It has even been supposed that in diluvial deposits the presence of ‘dendrites’ might be regarded as affording a certain mark of distinction between bones mixed with the diluvium at a somewhat later period and the true diluvial relics, to which alone it was supposed that these deposits were confined.
Essays
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His vocals alone possess so much diluvial strength that the ocean of queer chants, orchestral washes, and electronic elements of the album are rendered unnecessary.
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We claim scriptural authority for the assertion that Jesus Christ was and is God the Creator, the God who revealed Himself to Adam, Enoch, and all the antediluvial patriarchs and prophets down to Noah; the God of
Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
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This high authority maintained that the soil of Moulin Quignon was not diluvial at all, but was of much more recent formation; and, agreeing in that with Cuvier, he refused to admit that the human species could be contemporary with the animals of the quaternary period.
Journey to the Interior of the Earth
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Well, I shall be far more proud of it than of any old fossilized remnant of antediluvial times, I can assure you," was the quick retort.
Sara, a Princess
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It would be a waste of time, in the present state of science, to controvert this hypothesis, as it is now admitted that even if the rush of a diluvial current, invented for the occasion and wholly without analogy in the known course of nature, be granted, it would be inadequate to explain the uniformity, parallelism, persistency, and rectilinearity of the so-called glacial furrows.
The Antiquity of Man
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Among people, John Woodward was known as a 'super-diluvialist'.
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