Grayling, (Thymallus), any of several troutlike game fishes, family Salmonidae, found in cold, clear streams of Eurasia and northern North America.
Over the last two days, Taliban soldiers have left Kunduz in two clear streams: most of the Afghan Taliban have gone east into the arms of Gen. Daoud Khan's force of mostly ethnic Tajiks.
If the idea of hiking in the mountains among clear streams fills you with tranquility and not a panicky desire for antihistamine, adventure for you might consist of wildlife conservation, eco-tourism, or scenic recreation.
Free to run in the fields near my mother's hut, free to swim in the clear stream that ran through my village, free to roast mealies [corn] under the stars … It was only when I learnt that my boyhood freedom was an illusion … that I began to hunger for it".
Free to run in the fields near my mother's hut, free to swim in the clear stream that ran through my village, free to roast mealies under the stars and ride the broad backs of slow-moving bulls.
Yet in the novel's symbolic structure Patusan represents something richer and vaguer, a refuge from places "where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream".
It derives partly from the sheer fluency of the surfaces, the words and images as smooth as polished stones in a clear stream, with the concomitant result that meaning flows over them without sticking.
But what did he see in the clear stream below?
Moghul emperors in the 17th century thought these clear streams and lush mountains the closest thing to a heaven on earth, and 20th-century tourists once agreed.
But when we got to Chard we admired the two clear streams that ripple in the gullies on either side of Fore Street, which are said, when they leave the town, to connect eventually with both coasts, one flowing north and the other south.
