They range from sometimes raging torrents, damaging bridges and flooding city areas, to trickles and completely dry in summer.
"They had passed through crazed looking villages washed in palest blue; crossed dry beds of torrents over fantastic bridges; skirted sheer precipices which no sage and broom could temper.
'They had passed through crazed-looking villages washed in palest blue; crossed dry beds of torrents over fantastic bridges; skirted sheer precipices which no sage or broom could temper.
Thubron conjures the wobble of a tin bridge over a torrent, the "cathedral shadow" of spruce and prickly oak and the two-note song of a Himalayan cuckoo over smooth grasslands.
When the waters rise and form a torrent under the nearby road bridge, the otters are forced onto the bank and across the road, putting their lives at risk.
In 1906 he designed a bridge over the Torrent de Pomeret, between Sarrià and Sant Gervasi.
It was a rural area, used mainly for cattle grazing, cut off from downtown by the mercurial rio, which could swell from a trickle to a raging torrent terrifyingly quickly, sweeping wooden bridges and trestles away and out to sea.
Another first-night offering (the evening lasted about four hours) was a Civil War drama, "Andersonville," in which opposing cavalry members fought a battle across a mountain torrent running under a 30-foot bridge.
They stood on bridges marveling at the torrent of fast-moving brown water as it swept away anything in its path.
By 9 p.m. the river had turned into a raging torrent that swept away the town's bridge, a four-story riverside hotel, and houses and shops.
Under a bridge, two Polish men talked in torrents, one of them much given to kissing the hands of the women in our group.
