During the summer months the vicinity was occasionally visited by violent thunderstorms, with Deluging rain.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
To Katharine's agitated mind it appeared that this kettle was an enormous kettle, capable of Deluging the house in its incessant showers of steam, the enraged representative of all those household duties which she had neglected.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
"Ah, truly Sir Reginald, we loyal French feel even more bitterly, for we have shame added to our grief and indignation, that they are our compatriots who are guilty of such unspeakable atrocities as are now Deluging our belle France with blood," said Madame De La Motte, putting her handkerchief to her face to hide the tears which the mention of the fate of the hapless queen seldom failed to draw from the eyes of French loyalists in those days.
"Won from the Waves"
W.H.G. Kingston