Then another high waterfall, a slender hypnotic stream hurtling down the 100-foot mountainside, as the Cascade trail wound through beautiful native forest.
Reading the glossary, I was amazed by the compressive elegance of its lexis, and its capacity for fine discrimination: a caochan, for instance, is "a slender moor-stream obscured by vegetation such that it is virtually hidden from sight", while a feadan is "a small stream running from a moorland loch", and a fèith is "a fine vein-like watercourse running through peat, often dry in the summer".
Ms. Spark's first novel was published when she was 39, and after that she supplied a stream of slender novels and enigmatic short stories peopled with such curiosities as narrators from beyond the grave, flying saucers, grandmotherly smugglers with bread bins full of diamond-studded loaves and individuals of so little substance that they disappear when the door closes.
Each is a hollow container from which water spurts in slender streams through multiple little perforations, falling like rain into a broad, shallow basin below.
THE CROWD On a recent Saturday night, with no art openings planned, a steady stream of artsy, impossibly slender folks passed through.
Rather than being immersed in water, however, each is a hollow container from which water spurts in slender streams through multiple little perforations.
The house has just a slender crescent of side yard.
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