Torrent
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Unlike in previous years, there was no
torrent
of commentary about the tumultuous events that shook the Arab world and seemed to promise a transformation of its politics.
Merkel is not the first German politician to adopt a hardline stance on monetary policy and debt – nor is she the first to face a
torrent
of international criticism.
Rapidly growing catch-up economies are paddling furiously to avoid being dragged down by a
torrent
of capital inflows.
Others, wedded to Schumpeter’s early thesis on innovation in his classic 1911 book The Theory of Economic Development, infer that the
torrent
of discoveries by scientists and explorers has shrunk to a trickle in recent times.
With decision-makers relying on a growing
torrent
of forecasts regarding COVID-19 and other important issues, it is more important than ever that they ask questions about how the projections were made.
The reddish light of three open lamps cut out great moving shadows and gave to this subterranean hall the air of a villainous cavern, some bandits' forge near a
torrent.
Once more the rains were beating down on the red tiles and flowing down into the tubs beneath the gutters with the sound of a
torrent.
Other men continued to arrive; they were nearly a thousand, without order, again flowing on to the road like a
torrent
let loose.
They arrived at Gaston-Marie in still greater numbers, more than two thousand five hundred madmen, breaking everything, sweeping away everything, with the force of a
torrent
which gains strength as it moves.
The
torrent
was roaring over their heads, and they at last reached the pit-eye beneath a veritable waterspout.
When they at last came near the pit-eye, a
torrent
barred their road.
Behind, enormous cavities had been hollowed out, and the yellow sand, as fine as flour, was flowing in considerable masses; while the waters of the Torrent, that subterranean sea with its unknown tempests and shipwrecks, were discharging in a flow like a weir.
Deneulin, who had been appointed divisional engineer, came into the midst of the disaster on beginning his duties; and his first care was to turn the canal back into its bed, for this
torrent
increased the damage every hour.
This
torrent
of flame carried away the captain and three workers, ascended the pit, and leapt up to the daylight in an eruption which split the rocks and the ruins around.
The noise of the
torrent
dazed them, the final falling in of the tubbing sounded like the last crack of doom; and their bewilderment was completed by the neighing of the horses shut up in the stable, the terrible, unforgettable death-cry of an animal that is being slaughtered.
The cowls over the companionways would vomit a
torrent
of sailors and officers.
The electric light suddenly went out, and two enormous waterspouts crashed onto the deck of the frigate, racing like a
torrent
from stem to stern, toppling crewmen, breaking spare masts and yardarms from their lashings.
The Nautilus's pumps have prodigious strength, as you must have noticed when their waterspouts swept like a
torrent
over the Abraham Lincoln.
Our engines tried to offer resistance by churning the waves with propeller in reverse, but the Nautilus went with the torrent, as swift as an arrow.
In less than twenty minutes, swept along by the torrent, the Nautilus had just cleared the Isthmus of Suez.
A
torrent
had carried us from one sea to the other.
Like a
torrent
the sea was rushing into our retreat, and since we definitely were not mollusks, we had to clear out.
Then, carried away as by a rushing torrent, she soon began to recall the day before.
A
torrent
which comes tearing down from the mountain passes through Verrieres before emptying its waters into the Doubs, and supplies power to a great number of sawmills; this is an extremely simple industry, and procures a certain degree of comfort for the majority of the inhabitants, who are of the peasant rather than of the burgess class.
A score of weighty hammers, falling with a clang which makes the pavement tremble, are raised aloft by a wheel which the water of the
torrent
sets in motion.
She could not hold out against the
torrent
of happiness which now poured into her heart after all those days of despair.
If some Richelieu does not stem the
torrent
of private judgment, all is lost.'
He climbed down as soon as he could into the bed of the torrent, which ran through M. de Renal's magnificent gardens at a depth of ten feet, and confined between walls.
He was aware of the danger, he was afraid of answering with a
torrent
of tears the indiscreet person who should question him; he closeted himself in his room.
He felt as if he were on a ship in a rough sea, as if the water were hitting against the wooden walls, a thundering from the depths of the corridor as if the
torrent
were crashing over it, as if the corridor were swaying and the waiting litigants on each side of it rising and sinking.
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