Sentence examples for flood rises from inspiring English sources

The Dark Flood Rises is published by Canongate.

The Dark Flood Rises is published by Canongate on 3 November.

For Christmas, please, Margaret Drabble's new novel, The Dark Flood Rises (Canongate): the urgently needed voice of the tough-minded liberal.

And, while they need no hype from me, I can't wait to read The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain (Chatto & Windus, May), The Dust of Promises by Ahlam Mosteghanemi (Bloomsbury, January), Mothering Sunday, A Romance, by Graham Swift (Scribner, February), The Lubetkin Legacy by Marina Lewycka (Fig Tree, May)  and The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble (Canongate, November).

The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble (Canongate) Set in a care home, Drabble's dark comedy centres around a woman who's been obsessed since childhood with the perfect death – and at the age of 60, after an unremarkable life, is even more determined to achieve it.

The flood rises as everyone claims justice, blaming real or imagined culprits and it just goes on and on, higher and higher.

It's more like a flash flood rising from the bottom of the ravine.

It has been eight years since the waters of the great flood rose in a global cataclysm, swamping cities, erasing countries and drowning the damned.

This is where the flood rose 14ft and the partial, capricious nature of the recovery is obvious to daytrippers, never mind lifelong residents.

The coarse, crackling voice of the blues singer Charley Patton, performing "High Water Everywhere Part 1," his startling account of the 1927 Mississippi River flood, rose from the speakers, raw and unruly.

The former has better performances in the flood rising period while the latter has better performances in the recession period.