One minute he was in the boat, at another on shore pulling with the Arabs at the rope; the next, he was mounted on a rock in the middle of the rapids shouting to the Arabs and boatmen.
Between them all the rapids rush headlong, throwing up their foam on every side.
From very early times these rapids had been navigated by Indians in their frail canoes, and they knew where the water was deep enough for a large boat to go.
She was born at Chambly, near Montreal, in 1852, within sound of the roaring rapids of the River Richelieu, and in sight of the old historical fort.
This river is called the Tĕmbĕling, and it is chiefly remarkable for the number of itsrapids and the richness of its gutta-bearing forests.
If you go up the latter, you come to rapids innumerable, a few gambir plantations, and a great many of the best ruffians in the Peninsula, who are also my very good friends.
Above the rapids the Malays plant enough gambir to supply the wants of the whole betel-chewing population of Pahang, and, as the sale of this commodity wins them a few dollars annually, they are too indolent to plant their own rice.
He stated the trip from the mouth to Call's Landing would take a boat a month, there being difficulty in passing rapids and in finding wood for fuel.
At the outset, there was necessity for the voyageurs to pass through the rapids of Black Canyon, an exciting experience, not unmixed with danger.
There were times when he felt that he almost hated Slim Naudain, and this was one of them, yet fine lines of anxiety drew about his eyes as he watched the first lolling tongue of the rapids reach for the tiny boat.
It bore him swiftly to the roaring white rapids some fifty yards below, and the fire died in Bruce's pipe as, breathless, he watched the bobbing boat.
The last thing he remembered was Smaltz's raucous voice in the bar-room below boasting of the wicked rapids he had shot in the tumultuous "Colo-rady" and on the Stikine in the far north.
In addition to a head and hind sweepman each barge carried a bailer, for there were rapids where at any stage of the water a boat partially filled.
The river bed contracts in width gradually, for seven miles below the falls, where the whirlpoolrapids are to be seen.
The rapidsstart some sixteen miles from Lake Erie.
The boat caught in these rapids stands but a poor chance, as at the end of the torrent the water dashes down a cataract over 150 feet deep.
Between and below these falls there are continuous rapids of from 3 to 18 feet descent.
The rapids are but a third of a mile in length, during which distance there is a fall of fifty-two feet.
Partly walking, partly riding in a car of the scenic tramway, he followed the line of the Falls and river downward to where the Whirlpool Rapids curdle and eddy within the deep walls of the gorge.
Here, as at other dangerous rapids on the river, an official lifeboat is stationed.
The last rapids are the Pyhakoski or Sacred Rapids.
And what a shock it was when it went plunk into therapids which extend many miles!
When breakfast is over, you can strap your sleeping bags on your deer and I will guide you over the trail around the rapids to the point where I left your sleds.
Attatak," she said to the native girl, "they say the Little Kalikumf River has rapids in it by the end of a glacier and that no man dares shoot those rapids.
It was quite enough, Marian thought; but somehow they must pass theserapids whether they were frozen over or not.
The ice came racing down over therapids like mad and wrecked his wonderful yacht beyond all repair.
The passing of the rapidsby the overland trail was all that their host had promised.
At the same instant she found herself wide awake, fully alert and conscious of the problems she must face that day--the passing of the rapids and covering a long span of that trail which still lay between them and their goal.
If the rapids are frozen over when the time comes for the return trip, you can pass here and get them.
At the Goose Rapids Winship was forced by low water and the rocky channel to reload his entire cargo to a "lighter," a two-day task.
Many rapids and obstructions occur along its course.
To improve the Upper Yangtze, the rapids should be dammed up to form locks to enable crafts to ascend the river as well as to generate water power.
As Kweikiang is smaller, shallower and has more rapids along its course, so its improvement will be more difficult than that of the other parts of the waterway.
It is here at the head of theserapids that one of the great reservoirs of the Upper Nile must some day be constructed.
All that reach of the Victoria Nile navigable from Lake Chioga to Foweira when the rapids ending in the Murchison Falls begin again--70 miles.
As we had now to ascend a succession of rapids for fifteen miles, and two of our crew were lame, I directed the canoe to be laid up on the shore, and took the Canadian and the boys to assist at the tow-line.
Here too are found the first rapids mentioned by Mackenzie, which continue in succession for two miles, when the water is low.
By noon we got over the four Portages on Clear-Water river, and descended, with some trouble, the series of rapids that follow them.
In this expansion are found the second rapids of Mackenzie: at the first appearance they seem dangerous, but are not so.
The next day's operations were tedious and hazardous as long as therapids continued.
A little before you pass the last of these rapids two immense rocks appear, nearly on the summit of one of the many hills which form this far-extending range where it begins to fall off gradually to the south.
It will take you five days, from the Indian habitation on the point of the island, to where these falls and rapids terminate.
An' now, Masther Robert, what'll become o' that in the rapids below the sawmill?
Arthur saw the operation by and by, and the hardy raftsmen shooting the rapids in what appeared to him circumstances of exciting peril.
Several rapids occurred in the river; and, during great part of two days the channel was so narrow and so much blocked up with huge trees, that, in spite of every effort, the adventurers were expecting their boat every moment to strike.
The boat struck, the natives were troublesome, the rapids difficult to get over; but the worst of all their toils and trials were their daily labours and unsatisfied wants.
Below the rapids the river widened out, and became so shallow that we stuck fast in blue clay.
Now remained a difficult stretch, where the mighty river breaks in foaming falls and rapids through the escarpment which follows the line of the west coast of Africa.
Halfway they had to pass up the sixth cataract, there losing two days more, and not till the 28th had they left the rapids behind them.
In foaming waterfalls and roaringrapids they rush down from the mountains to meet their lord.
Some are large, others small; some are built for the lower, quieter waters of the river, others for the rapids in Hupeh and Sze-chuan.
This way and that the currents buffeted him, fed in their strength by the momentum of the rapids above, until all the breath was battered out of his body.
Half an hour more and the Mivern Rapids could be heard.
Many smaller rivers and creeks from the west as well as the east empty into this river which gathers momentum and volume constantly until it reaches a swiftness of five miles an hour between Five Finger Rapids and Fort Selkirk.
Many here cannot endure the stress of the current, nor pull against it, and so float easily on towards the rapids and destruction.
After leaving White Horse Rapids we traveled for days down the river.
How the name of each tug and even freight-carrier became a familiar household word, and how many were the conjectures as to whether "she" would get through to White Horse Rapids in the low water before a freeze-up!
Five Finger Rapids was the next point of interest on our route, and I am here reminded of a short story which is not altogether one of fiction, and which is entitled: Midnight on a Yukon Steamer.
Father had gone to the Klondyke a year before at the age of sixty-four, climbing Chilkoot Pass in the primitive way and "running" Miles Canyon and White Horse Rapids in a small boat which came near being swamped in the passage.
In another place the same author says: The Sauteurs, who are beyond the Missisakis, take their name from a Saut (waterfall) which flows from Lake Superior into Lake Huron by a great fall whose rapids are extremely violent.
They cross all these terrible rapids into which they cast a net like a sack, a little more than half an ell in width by one in depth attached to a forked stick about 15 feet long.
They were convinced that distance and natural impediments, such as rapids and torrents, protected them from invasion in their remote country south of Lake Ontario.
After considerable exertion, the governor and his party passed the rapids and continued up the St Lawrence; nine days later they entered Lake Ontario, to the amazement of a party of Iroquois whom they met there.
With large plans in view, he dammed the rapids and set up a small mill and power-plant, the precursor of a far larger one in the future.
Far below the rapidsof New Hope River murmured a contra-bass to their voices.
The steady, powerful droning of the power-plant rose, blent with the soothing murmur of the rapidsand the river.
Had men been on it, all must have been flung into the rapids by the shock.
From the forges, smithies and work-shops along the river-bank at the rapids arose no sounds of the accustomed industry.
Stern, his mind reverting to an unfinished experiment down there in his laboratory in the Rapids power-house.
She turned her dimming eyes toward the suspension bridge hung high above the swift and lashing rapids of New Hope River--the bridge, a cobweb-strand in space, across the chasm.
In all seeming as deserted and as void of human life as on the first day he and Beta had set foot there, the canyon brooded under the morning sun, and for all answer rose only the foaming tumult of the rapids far below.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rapids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
