outpour

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At this depth a skull was found imbedded in the gravel, which, if authentic, must have been overflowed by several successive thick outpours of lava in the ancient volcanic era of that region.

From Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution by Morris, Charles

These eruptions were accompanied by prodigious outpours of lava that altered the topography of the entire mountain section.

From Fly Fishing in Wonderland by Klahowya

But when the oil of gladness God graciously outpours, The heavenward blaze,     With blended praise, More mightily upsoars.

From The Ministry of Intercession A Plea for More Prayer by Murray, Andrew

I love the wind that unceasing roars,   While cringe the trees from its wrath in vain,          And the lightning-flash,          And the thunder-crash, And skies, from whose Erebus depths outpours   In slanting drifts the autumnal rain.

From Fleurs De Lys, and Other Poems by Weir, Arthur

Her chatelaine's of amber fine; No hue of coming autumn's wine But she outpours from tawny beaker, And fills each grape of the swelling vine.

From Song-waves by Rand, Theodore H. (Theodore Harding)