1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North III. 379 Calm onflowings of life shaded in domestic privacy.

1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 41 As the on-flowing of the world had no beginning, so it has no end.

a1882 J. Thomson Doom of City in Poet. Wks. (1895) II. iii. xvii. 178 Life is only by perpetual on-flowing; Torpid rest is the true life-devouring death.

1930 Tablet 26 July 107/2 The large and stately on-flowing of history.

1982 Man 17 235 An action which..ensures the on-flowing of the life blood of the generations.

1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 240/1 Only single parts of the onflowing current of thought.

1859 Harper's Mag. Oct. 597/1 Heeding but little the influx of emigration and the onflowing tide of civilization that swept past his home.

1861 A. T. de Vere Sisters 17 No eye Finer pursued the on-flowing line: her wheel Murmur'd complacent joy.

1905 R. Davey tr. M. Serao In Country of Jesus VI. iv. 167 The rapidly on-flowing waters reflect the azure blue of the sky above.

a1924 M. Ghose Adam Alarmed in Paradise in Coll. Poems (1970) i. iii. 38 Its on-flowing dream History's very spate is.

1975 MLN 90 974 The continuum of literature is a belle-lettristically onflowing system.

2000 Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) 10 Mar. 25 But the union, despite the onflowing benefits which should arise from the..contract, didn't have enough money to provide all the solutions.