White cascades with the soft, fluttering veils of spray pour through the brilliant bloom and the bright green of the terraces.
There are usually many entrances into the waters of a frozen brook,--openings by cascades and the holes that commonly remain in the ice over swift waters.
By the outlet or in the cascades above or below is the ever-cheerful water-ouzel.
A huge pyramid of flame in the centre of the area threw out brilliant cascades which were seen by hundreds of thousands who crowded the neighbouring streets and parks.
As cascades from the gloom Of caves, crusaders eastward rush To win the holy tomb.
From Vancouver we traveled up the north side of the Columbia (dragging that old cannon along) to a place above the Cascadeswhere we built a ferry boat and crossed the river again to the south side and followed up the trails to the Dalles.
As showing still another phase of Indian imagination, the stories of the "Tomanowas Bridge" of the Cascades may well find a place here.
That steamer was brought in sections by Allen McKinley to the Upper Cascades in 1853, there put together, and set to plying on the part of the river between the Cascades and The Dalles.
The Oregon Steam Navigation Company advertises the steamers Julia, Idaho, and Tenino, running between Portland and the Nez Perce mines with portages at the Cascades and The Dalles.
The portages at the Cascades on both sides of the river were made by very inadequate wooden tramways.
The steamers Wasco, Mary, and Eagle were of much service in rescuing victims of the murderous assault on the Cascades by the Klickitats.
In some versions this story is connected with the slide which formed the Cascades of the Columbia.
He told the writer that the Indians at the Cascades had a spring festival with the first run of salmon.
Their journey afoot down the river to the Cascades and thence in canoes to Astoria was a soft and gentle exercise after the arduous struggles though the mountains.
During high water the portage on the Oregon side at the Cascades had a monopoly of the business and it took one-half the freight income from Portland to The Dalles.
A little farther up we cross the Govo, which is half frozen over; springs and brooks from the side valleys adorn the scene with cascades of ice.
Water was brought from a great distance, and caused to tumble down the mountain in cascades into the lake, which had to be lined with porcelain to retain it.
Vauvenargues are situated near the cascades of the Val Infernets, and within 3 hrs.
Excursions of much the same character, and in the same direction, are made to the Cascades de l’Angle 1¾ m.
What could be more beautiful than its lovelycascades flashing in the sun or hidden away among the shadows among the pine and maple?
Willie was perhaps thinking of the old saw mills where cascades fall and the phoebe-bird sings and the high banks, which the stream had worn deeply because it had some obstacle to get around.
Only there, height above height, rise those rocky ramparts where snowy cascades leap hundreds of feet, then leap again where those chaotic and fantastic rocks and immeasurable sweep of terraced hills stretch away like another world.
Back of the first wave was another, and farther back still others, that advanced to a certain point and then spread out evenly, like terraced cascades of purest marble.
Down we go, at full trot, through the beautiful Roffla Ravine, picturesque in the twilight, with its rocky walls, and its rattling cascades of the River Rhine dashing over the rocky bed.
Directly opposite us, away over the other side of the valley, rose up the sheer, rocky sides of the mountain wall, out of which waterfalls were spurting and cascades dashing in every direction, to feed the stream below.
From the same lips the honied phrases fall That still are bitter from cascades of gall.
Cascades Of tears spring singing from each golden spout, Run roaring from the verge with hoarser sound, Dash downward through the glimmering profound, Quench the tormenting flame and put the Devil out!
It has abundant electric power generated by falls in the rivers of the Cascades at a very low cost.
The most gorgeous of these, known as the Upper Fall, makes a huge leap of 300 feet into a deep rocky basin, which then continues in several foaming and plunging cascades in general aspect not unlike the Niagara gorge.
Norrland, in the north, is a region of vast and lonely forests and rapid mountain streams, often forming fine cascades and ribbon-like lakes before they reach the Gulf of Bothnia.
You have not heard of the hard tramp up the canyon, past almost innumerable cascades and rapids, back and upwards until a pool is reached where a great throng of mountain trout is assembled.
There is a fall of one hundred and thirty feet in its course of forty miles, and that means numerous cascades and rapids.
Come to the forest or the musky meadows Brown with their mellow grain; Come where the cascades shake green shadows, Where tawny orchards reign.
These points held out, and were not captured, but the landing at the Lower Cascades fell completely into the hands of the savages.
He was in those days a lieutenant in the Ninth Infantry, and was one of the officers who superintended the execution of the nine Indians at the Cascades of the Columbia in 1856.
Wallen's company of the Fourth Infantry and a company of volunteers hastily organized at Portland, but as the Cascades had already been retaken, this reinforcement was too late to participate in the affair.
When the Indians attacked the people at the Cascades on the 26th, word was sent to Colonel Wright, who had already got out from the Dalles a few miles on his expedition to the Spokane country.
Straggling settlers from the Lower Cascades made their way down to Fort Vancouver, distant about thirty-six miles, which they reached that night; and communicated the condition of affairs.
We passed several cascadesof dissolved snow, that had made channels of formidable depth in the crevices of the mountains, and with such a fearful roaring as we could hear it for seven long miles.
D'Artagnan entered, closed the door behind him, and advanced into a pavilion built in a circular form, in which no other sound could be heard but cascades and the songs of birds.
I liked the colourless light best; it merely intensified the contrast revealed by ordinary daylight between the white foam of the cascades and the black surrounding pines.
Through this defile it is forced, falling steeply, and forming one of the grandest ice-cascades in the Alps.
These collect at the bottom of the valley in one central stream which bounds in foaming cascades to the little lake-bed mentioned above.
On leaving the lake-bed above mentioned, Cougar creek flows in a series ofcascades for a little more than half a mile through open alpine meadowland, broken here and there by knolls crowned with scrubby spruce.
It leaves this, and, continually augmented by falls from above, rushes through luxurious meadow-lands in a second series of cascades that have worn down to bedrock, showing where a thin veneer of soil is overlaying it.
The upper half presents a series of cascades and falls, and the sides show curious small potholes that are in the process of erosion from the soft limestone.
Cascades were everywhere; and the weaving of many diamond-skeins of water behind a dark foreground of motionless trees was like the ceaseless play of human thought behind inscrutable faces whose expression never changed.
By and by Hall Dome, one of the great granite mountains, began to dominate the world; but though the cascades were in his kingdom they could not be governed by him, because spirits are not ruled by earthly kings.
From the middle of September to the middle of October the air is pure and invigorating, the mountain forests are then in a blaze of autumnal splendor, the cascades are finer, and out-of-door jaunts are less fatiguing than in July and August.
Large rivers dwindled to pitiful rivulets, brooks were dried up, and the beautiful cascades in many instances wholly disappeared.
I have explored this path for several miles beyond Beckytown while visiting the great slide which sloughed off from the side of Tripyramid, and the cascades on the way to it.
Higher up, where it is broken in long regular steps over which fifty cascades tumble, I thought it most beautiful.
A short walk up this stream brings us to Thompson's Falls, which are several pretty cascades slipping down a bed of granite.
Only a lover may sing the praises of these mountain cascades falling from the skies: "The torrent is the soul of the valley.
The outlet was down several natural terraces that converted the little river into a succession of dashingcascades before it reached the valley.
The Middle Fall is a series of cascades descending over six hundred feet, and the Lower Fall is four hundred feet high.
We are told these mountains were first named from the numerous cascades which pour in from tributary streams coming over the cliffs and through the crevices of this tremendous chasm.
Tunnels pierce the jutting cliffs, bridges and walls carry the railway along, and at intervals wild cascades leap through fissures down the mountain sides.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cascades" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
