Sentence examples for swift flowing from inspiring English sources

"In the House of Representatives," he said, "the river starts out high in the mountains, very swift flowing.

There were rivers – lots of rivers – all swift flowing over rocky courses; and the sea was never far away".

Carpenters working on the house next to our rental cottage heightened our expectations, advising us that their friends were pulling 30-pounders out of the swift flowing tidal rips off Fishers Island.

These paintings are defined by swift, flowing brushwork and forceful contours framing fresh, light colours.

The Ruzizi River which flows from Lake Kivu toward Lake Tanganyika is relatively small and swift flowing.

A possible reason why riparian vegetation may not be important in the mountain tributaries considered in the present study could be related to the low retention time of allochthonous organic debris due to the swift flowing nature of the streams as well as the occurrence of spates during the rainy season.

On other songs, he would hold three fingers still and get a steadier but equally swift flow of notes from his index finger and thumb.

But "Phoebe Snow," choreographed in 1959 to music by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, is a smooth, swift flow of highly charged dancing, often crossing and recrossing the stage.

The retreat-making larvae of many lotic caddisflies build entirely new pupal cases with fine gravel and sand that they collect in the neighbourhood of the building place to fix it with silk to cobbles in swift flow (where finer sediments are generally rare).

The streams' swift flow brings in plenty of oxygen, and the caterpillars anchor themselves to submerged rocks with silk lines.

El Nino has arrived in California, causing swift flows of water in the Los Angeles River channel.