MUNRO: By morning, highways had become fast-flowing rivers. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2007] Reference
The blackfly lays its eggs in the water of fast-flowing rivers. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 2] Reference
Its abundance of life bears one along like a fast-flowing river. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference
The runoff formed a fast-flowing stream, glistening in the sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
The Sarasvati appeared there under the name of the fast-flowing Surenu. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
A large waterwheel was turning under the pressure of the fast-flowing stream. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
No giddying walk with hurtling traffic one side and fast-flowing Thames the other. From Wordnik.com. [The mission song]
With head cocked, he listened for the familiar music of fast-flowing water over stones. From Wordnik.com. [Nightside The Long Sun]
Some of the fighting was aboveground, some in a fast-flowing river, seemingly belowground. From Wordnik.com. [Crusader Gold]
After they had crossed the mountain there were several deep, fast-flowing rivers in their path. From Wordnik.com. [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]
He'd fallen twenty feet and crushed his head on the rocks then drowned in the fast-flowing river. From Wordnik.com. [Garden of Beasts]
Peaceful, fast-flowing, happy time! my story glides by you now as swiftly as you once glided by me. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
On the third day they forged up a fast-flowing tributary stream, ascending the great Carpath range. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
The fast-flowing water digs a deep trough through thesandbars, an ideal location for feeding stripers. From Wordnik.com. [How to Catch Fall Stripers: It's Not Easy, but It's Worth It] Reference
"It will be mighty hard on Jimmy and Arnold," muttered Roy, gazing somberly at the fast-flowing river. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference
Tourists are warned not to swim in the fast-flowing river, its waterfill of flotsam a continual hazard. From Wordnik.com. [Obituary] Reference
In the afternoon of this day we came to a valley about a mile wide, filled with clear, fast-flowing water. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Sharpe crossed the fast-flowing stream, safe from malicious sprites, and watched as his Riflemen followed. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
They first walked across a rickety pontoon bridge that floated on boats anchored in the fast-flowing Yangzi. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester] Reference
They needed to be to drag those crates against the fast-flowing water - and how far did they have to be dragged?. From Wordnik.com. [The Rockingdown Mystery]
It had about forty yards of deep, fast-flowing water, but probably not more than half that amount in the dry season. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
He saw the snow recede from the mountain peaks and the young deer emerge from the woods to the fast-flowing streams. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawk Eternal]
To reach those vulnerable roads they must cross the Sierra de Gredos, then bridge the deep, fast-flowing River Tormes. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Skirmish]
Shadows that tried to congeal in a fast-flowing stream shattered helplessly with each ripple and twist of the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdoms of Light]
On October 13, search aircraft found the wreckage of the Weisner/Maxwell aircraft lying inverted in a fast-flowing river. From Wordnik.com. [Maxwell, Clavin W.] Reference
At the waterfall's base shimmered a wide pool, whence emerged the continuation of the deep fast-flowing stream before her. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
The deaths occurred when people were washed into fast-flowing rivers that burst their banks, or when mudslides buried homes. From Wordnik.com. [China devastated by floods] Reference
Moments later, they were on the edge of a steep bank, several yards of fast-flowing water blocking their path three feet below. From Wordnik.com. [Be My Enemy]
High up in the mountains I would be climbing UP a series of rocky fast-flowing waterfalls and swimming in the deep pools inbetween. From Wordnik.com. [42 entries from July 2007] Reference
That suggests to me it is a difficult thing to introduce, without changing the nature of a game that is fast-flowing and high tempo. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Webb hopes for a bit less controversy on Premier League return] Reference
Take, for instance, the way that he and Eloran worked together, moving through the pack, smooth as an otter in a fast-flowing stream. From Wordnik.com. [Exile's Valor]
Standing on one of these towers the native looks down upon the narrow but fertile valley, divided in twain by the fast-flowing river. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference
But otherwise it's either a sort of gully for draining fast-flowing fluids, or it could be a sort of collar that houses ball-bearings. From Wordnik.com. [Decider]
Fifty yards from the fast-flowing river there was a narrow road, leading eventually to a wider road which meandered down to the coast. From Wordnik.com. [Strip Jack]
A narrow but fast-flowing stream wound its way through the village, drawing volume and energy from the high mountains in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Howling Stones]
But although the lake seemed calm, the fast-flowing glacial melt gave it an undercurrent that was slowly taking them toward the shore. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
At one point we ascended a long, wide, gentle slope all laid out in tiny fields, and well watered from two large, fast-flowing streams. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
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