Sentence examples for rushing torrent from inspiring English sources

She is finally consoled by a quotation from Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: "Time is a rushing torrent, a stream, fed by life and its changes...in this stream wherein there is no abiding.

As in an action movie, there's a constant tick-tock, the explorers must get through the river gorge before the spring thaw breaks up the ice pack and frees a deadly, rushing torrent; they need to cross the mountains and reach the Yukon before winter's freeze brings starvation.

But, unlike men, our animal urges are stoutly denied, by society and by ourselves, so that when they surface, it is not as a manageable stream, but as a rushing torrent that will sweep up everything it passes, even a pair of shagging primates.

The foaming, crashing water was no longer beautiful; it was a rushing torrent of death threatening to snatch my babies.

I used to stand on the back porch of our house on the Boyle Heights bluff, watching the rushing torrent," former City Councilman Boyle Workman, who was 14 at the time of the deluge, recounted in his 1936 book "The City That Grew". The storm climaxed with a cloudburst Feb. 17 above the Verdugo Hills.

Returning to Red's Meadow--which has a small store, cabins and horse stables--we ate lunch at a picnic table, and then hiked the 1 1/2 miles south to Rainbow Falls, a rushing torrent that plunges over a 100-foot rock wall.

Weather changes fast, narrow paths coated in black ice twist in steep hairpins above rushing torrents.

We see images of buffalo herds, Niagara Falls' rushing torrents, loggers perched inside a giant notch in a doomed California redwood.

This is especially true among aquatic larvae (e.g., mosquitoes) and perhaps reaches the extreme in mountain midge larvae, which live in rushing torrents and crawl on submerged rocks.

Roads and rail lines have been destroyed by flooded rivers which, according to officials, have also swept away bystanders, people seeking to flee rising waters in canoes and sleeping families whose homes were suddenly overcome by rushing torrents.

Brown's work fell from favour after his death, dismissed as dull and insipid while the new fashion for the picturesque embraced rocky crags, blasted trees and rushing torrents.