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Torrent in sentence

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Meanwhile, the rain came down in a steady torrent, and the lower part of the town was under water, owing to the river having overflowed.
Then she became rigid, preparing for the defence, and angrily inquiring of herself how she could vanquish the torrent.
This was the figure that now started forward, and burst into an animated torrent of words.
Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Winkle listened with gloomy respect to the torrent of eloquence which their leader poured forth from the sedan-chair, and the rapid course of which not all Mr. Tupman's earnest entreaties to have the lid of the vehicle closed, were able to check for an instant.
'Have the goodness to keep your observashuns to yourself, Sir, I beg,' said Mrs. Raddle, suddenly arresting the rapid torrent of her speech, and addressing the third party with impressive slowness and solemnity.
Elinor could no longer witness this torrent of unresisted grief in silence.
The holy man drew himself up, and swept away Kate's appeal with a torrent of abuse, imprecation, and threats of damnation; and the crowd began to slip past Kate by twos and threes, half carrying and half forcing their kinsfolk with them.
A child whom Tarvin had never before seen stood upright in the back of the carriage, and hurled a torrent of abuse in the vernacular at the outpaced trooper.
The reiterated and passionate farewells of the women in the palace, and the cyclonic sweep of a wedding at which Nick had altogether refused to efface himself as a bridegroom should, but had flung all their world forward on the torrent of his own vitality, had worn her out; the yearning of homesickness she had seen it in Mrs. Estes's wet eyes at the missionary's house an hour before lay strong upon her, and she would fain have remembered her plunge into the world's evil as a dream of the night, but"Nick," she said softly.
Anne of Austria lowered her head, allowed the torrent to flow on without replying, hoping that it would cease of itself; but this was not what Louis XIII meant.
On the 19th of June, for about a mile, that is an Icelandic mile, we walked upon hardened lava; this ground is called in the country 'hraun'; the writhen surface presented the appearance of distorted, twisted cables, sometimes stretched in length, sometimes contorted together; an immense torrent, once liquid, now solid, ran from the nearest mountains, now extinct volcanoes, but the ruins around revealed the violence of the past eruptions.
If this torrent had not been arrested in its fall by the formation of the sides of the mountain, it would have gone on to the sea and formed more islands.
Every hillock, every rock and stone, every projecting surface, had its share of the beaming torrent, and threw its shadow on the ground.
"What you hear is the rushing of a torrent."
"A torrent?"
The torrent, after having for some time flowed over our heads, was now running within the left wall, roaring and rushing.
Guided by an instinct peculiar to mountaineers he had as it were felt this torrent through the rock; but he had certainly seen none of the precious liquid; he had drunk nothing himself.
Hans stopped where the torrent seemed closest.
I perceived at once that he was examining to find the exact place where the torrent could be heard the loudest.
Suppose the torrent, bursting through, should drown us in a sudden flood!
stood the cause, when plunging my hands into the spouting torrent, I withdrew them in haste, for the water was scalding hot.
I then learnt that my providential fall had brought me exactly to the extremity of an almost perpendicular shaft; and as I had landed in the midst of an accompanying torrent of stones, the least of which would have been enough to crush me, the conclusion was that a loose portion of the rock had come down with me.
The explosion had caused a kind of earthquake in this fissured and abysmal region; a great gulf had opened; and the sea, now changed into a torrent, was hurrying us along into it.
If we had had provisions enough for months, how could we get out of the abyss into which we were being hurled by an irresistible torrent?
Was there any chance of escaping from the fury of this impetuous torrent, and of returning to the surface of the globe?
Perhaps the raft itself, stopped in its course by a projection, was staying the volcanic torrent.
It rocked upon the lava torrent, amidst a dense fall of ashes.
"Yes, I did write it," she cried, pouring out her soul in a torrent of words.
It was only a large stream, deep and clear, formed of the mountain water, which, half river, half torrent, here rippling peacefully over the sand, there falling against the rocks or dashing down in a cascade, ran towards the lake, over a distance of a mile and a half, its breadth varying from thirty to forty feet.
They were simply the last traces left by the torrent which had so long thundered through this cavity, and the air there was pure though slightly damp, but producing no mephitic exhalation.
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