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Hunt said officials have set up barriers they think will keep the city limits of Burlington safe from the Des Lacs River but that the high-flowing Souris could be a threat.

North Dakota dam at risk of failure 2011

And a lot of that is kind of boring, you know, and it doesn't make great high-flowing lines in speeches.

Remarks By The President At Dlc Conversation ITY National Archives 1998

And he wanted to have all this high-flowing policy discussion, and I said, "Now, before anything else, I want to tell you that my number one objective in our relations with Canada is to win the World Series back."

President Remarks To The Atlanta Braves ITY National Archives 1996

Which manner is only a high-flowing habit, for he adds in the same breath, dropping his figure suddenly, --

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

Tyne was low, crossed it on stilts; but, if high-flowing, hollaed across to inquire their health, and returned.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829 Various

He let them loose upon the highway, and the robbers thanked him with high-flowing speeches, and they declared that if they should ever find him sleeping by the roadway again they would let him lie.

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles Padraic Colum 1926

He let them loose upon the highway, and the robbers thanked him with high-flowing speeches, and they declared that if they should ever find him sleeping by the roadway again they would let him lie.

Part III. The Heroes of the Quest. Chapter IV. The Life and Labors of Heracles. The Battle of the Frogs and Mice 1921

His own high-flowing phrases came back to me, and I could have laughed, seeing him, but I remembered that those phrases had been the sabre cuts which drove me into action, that but for them I might be dozing like the very dogs, dozing with the unhappy restlessness of enforced inaction.

David Malcolm Nelson Lloyd 1903

And I think I could make myself popular with my party, and do the high-flowing patriotic talk for the benefit of the Provinces.

The Prime Minister 1876

My veins were swollen, the blood coursing through them like a high-flowing river; my tongue was parched and dry.

A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen 1862