It's sure to be a foaming torrent if I say it shall.Cited from Captivity, by M. Leonora Eyles [AKA: Margaret Leonora Pitcairn Eyles]
A sudden jerk of the car threw them both off their feet.They were passing now over a high trestle bridge above a foaming torrent.There was a horrible grinding and jarring and crashing.…Cited from Swirling Waters, by Max Rittenberg
That storm-burst along the range had turned for twenty-four hours every mountain stream into a foaming torrent for a hundred miles.Cited from Warrior Gap, by Charles King
Descending a steep cliff, I found myself in a narrow canon through which a mountain stream, swollen by the melting snow, rushed with considerable rapidity.The first object that caught my eye was a woman carrying a child and struggling through the foaming torrent.Then I observed, some little distance to the rear, but following with incredible rapidity, an enormous black bear.…Cited from Brave and True, by George Manville Fenn
In dry weather you would find the streams feeble, sometimes indeed quite dried up.In wet weather you would see them foaming torrents.In general these streams lose themselves as little threads of water upon the hillsides; but sometimes you may trace a river to a definite spring.…Cited from The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various
"Only ride and run your best, for the way is long to your kingdom, and the time short."So the child rode and ran his best, crossing hills and valleys, broad streams and foaming torrents.Here and there he saw people at work or at play, and on these he looked eagerly.…Cited from The Silver Crown, by Laura E. Richards
The little stream near our dwelling became a foaming torrent.Before we were aware of it, our house was surrounded by water.…Cited from Stories Worth Rereading, by Various
Light as it appeared, the mules one by one were led over.We followed, not venturing to look down into the foaming torrent, rushing impetuously along a hundred feet or more below us.Soon after this a ladder of rocks appeared in front of us.…Cited from On the Banks of the Amazon, by W.H.G. Kingston
But see, there is one poor wretch yet struggling with the foaming torrent.Cited from The Lancashire Witches, by William Harrison Ainsworth
The Fall of the Swallow is not a majestic single fall, but a succession of small ones.First there are a number of little foaming torrents, bursting through rocks about twenty yards above the promontory on which I stood.…Cited from Wild Wales by George Borrow
Jack had gone to the farthest point of their refuge, and was lying at full length with his head over the edge of the last beam.He was staring into the wild foaming torrent, when an inequality in the face of the descending cliff caught his eye.He looked intently, and saw that some fifteen feet above the river a narrow ledge ran horizontally along the cliff.…Cited from Jack Haydon's Quest, by John Finnemore
Well covered up with warm skins, and with fur boots on our feet, away we glide, dragged rapidly on by our prancing steeds over the hard snow, fleet almost as the bird on the wing, and like the bird directly across the country, where in summer no road can be found.Mighty streams also are bridged over, and we journey along the bed of water-courses; which in spring are swept by foaming torrents.The thick mantle of ice and snow which clothes our country forms a superb highway, which the inhabitants of other lands may in vain desire.…Cited from Fred Markham in Russia, by W. H. G. Kingston
Some of them were nearly two pounds; and although I had a strong casting-line, they were often most difficult to land, for a series of small cataracts dashed down amongst huge rocks and slippery boulders, until, a hundred feet below, the calm, deep Macomber pool was reached.As the fish, when hooked, would often dash down this foaming torrent into the pool below, they gave a tremendous amount of play before they were landed.There was an element of danger about it, too, as a false step might have led to ugly complications amongst the rocks, over which the water came pouring down at the rate of ten miles an hour.…Cited from A Cotswold Village, by J. Arthur Gibbs
Then the channel made a sharp curve, and when they paddled around it they saw, nearly half a mile above, a gray, weather worn mill, standing in a grove of willows on the right hand shore.The dam was visible a hundred yards or so beyond, and the sunlight was dancing on the foaming torrent that poured through the break.…Cited from Canoe Boys and Campfires, by William Murray Graydon
Suddenly, when she had reached the middle of the bridge, the plank cracked, gave way entirely, and in an instant she was in the foaming torrent below.She sank, and for one moment, one dreadful moment, she was under water, suffocating and terror-stricken, while all the events of her life seemed to rush before her like an instantaneous panorama.…Cited from The Old Stone House, by Anne March
Upon the morning of the third day, we resumed our journey, following the stream down for a few miles, over thousands of dead animals, which the now foaming torrent could not wash away.We struck the winding path which the "estampedados" had taken; and as it had been worked by the millions of fugitives into a gentle ascent, we found ourselves, long before noon, once more upon the level of the prairie.…Cited from Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet, by Captain Marryat
The smoke and dust had disappeared, and they could distinctly survey the scene of horror, devastation, and death, in the gorge.Happy those whom the falling "avalanche" had hurled from the narrow footpath into the foaming torrent!It is true, death had been in store for them there, but it had quickly put an end to their sufferings.…Cited from Andreas Hofer, by Lousia Muhlbach
The spot we had chosen was a broad flat rock, in some measure protected from the winds by the surrounding crags, and the trunks of fallen pines afforded us bright fires.Near by was a foaming torrent, which tumbled into the little lake about one hundred and fifty feet below us, and which, by way of distinction, we have called Island lake.We had reached the upper limit of the piney region; as, above this point, no tree was to be seen, and patches of snow lay everywhere around us, on the cold sides of the rocks.…Cited from Exploring Expedition to the Rockies, by Fremont
Underneath this ladder, where the water boiled and seethed in a thousand eddies, hundreds of trout lay ready to jump up the fall.Into this foaming torrent I threw my heavily leaded bait.No sooner was the worm in the water than it was seized by a fine sea trout.…Cited from A Cotswold Village, by J. Arthur Gibbs
Clouds of spray swept the vessel and made it hard to see her rail where the white combers leaped.Now and then one broke on board and poured in a foaming torrent across the slanted deck; she trembled horribly as she struck the sand.It looked as if she were driving sideways across the shoal, but the flare on the launch had gone out and Kit doubted if Mayne knew where he was.…Cited from The Buccaneer Farmer, by Harold Bindloss
