Out of monuments, names, words proverbs. . . and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!'
You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.
I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out of my hair.