The only ones not put in a happier disposition by this recent deluge are Dr. Mudd, our benefactor, Joel Lane and the unsettling Mr. Arnold.

The recent deluge cost the Gerenser family their best holiday weekend, the Fourth of July.

After the first of the most recent deluges, Gaby Kety, an Oriental-rug dealer who commutes, made it home unscathed but shaken.

The long prolonged drought with record heat spells followed by the recent deluge was, at the least, horrendous for many.

But a recent deluge of books on the subject - more than 40 - seems to have expanded the masters' mystical sway into Everyman's bedroom.

Who am I to judge those for whom the recent deluge does not spell disaster, but rather eco-excitement?

This one happens to be written by a man, the novelist-journalist-screenwriter Coerte V. W. Felske, but even that doesn't give it enough panache to stand out from the recent deluge of girl-guides.

No one else was abroad after the recent deluge.

The top was much farther than he had thought, and a recent deluge, blocking the crater's outlet, had turned it into a lake, with the no doubt enormous yams rotting under ten feet of putrid water.

(Southern Europe's recent deluge followed a record-breaking summer heat wave, the impact in Italy compounded by local deforestation.)