About eight o'clock the Royal Family fall into each other's arms amid 'torrents of tears.
I proceed down through a defile torn away by the wild torrents of the Kar.
Above the cheeks, made perhaps too rosy by the well-meaning artist, were deep furrows, as if storms and torrents had swept over them.
Ramsay, in his account quoted above, on pages 85 and 86, erroneously states was a proposed conference as to terms of capitulation.
And now there are ravines where torrents roar, and then heights from which appear on all sides the tall, sombre peaks.
The land of thick branches which they traverse, under the oppression of very high mountains which they do not see, is all in ravines, profound and torn up, in precipices, wheretorrents roar under the green night of the foliage.
The country is rent with deep chasms, made still deeper by vast torrents that pour down them during times of heavy rains.
In June, the river is at flood, with danger always present in floating trees and driftwood, muddy torrents coming from the melting snows of the Rocky Mountains.
At the foot of the mountain, the snow was succeeded by torrents of cold rain, which seemed to filter through into the very marrow of our bones.
These bridges are very common in Thibet, and are very convenient for crossing torrents and precipices; but one must be accustomed to them.
Day had scarce dawned when there was heard underground a rumbling but majestic sound, similar to the tumult of torrents rolling their waves over the mountain sides.
Their peculiar haunt, it is said, are the deep gorges of the mountain, whither it is impossible to penetrate without a guide, for all the approaches are guarded by impassable torrents and frightful precipices.
The torrents of rain which fell almost without interruption during our stay at Ghiamda, prevented us from visiting in detail this populous and commercial town.
It is as the rivers and the torrents produced by the waters of the sea, and which, after a course, more or less long, proceed again to lose themselves in its immensity.
With the first days of September the autumnal rains begin to fall upon the hills, and washing away the ochreous earth lying upon the slopes, descend in muddy torrents into the hollows of the valleys.
The water fell in torrents over the gay bonnets, caps, crinolines, etc.
The Countess lay on the floor, bathed in blood, which gushed in torrents from a large wound in her breast, whilst her dress was burning from the nearness of the shot by which the wound had evidently been inflicted.
We scrambled breathlessly over boulders and across torrents from the Wetterhorn, each of us hardly visible to the other in the thickening mist, save when the blaze of lightning flashed the scene into sudden and spectral clearness.
Outside, the rain fell in torrentsand the clouds hung thick and low over glacier and peaks.
It was as if a charm had given life to the rocks and lent their voices; as if noise and clamor were rushing like wild torrents down every gorge and cleft of the mountainside.
What will Europe say when you shed torrents of blood on a point of form?
It was quenched in torrents of blood after lasting some ten years.
The rocks of the torrents were bowed down that they might rest in Ar, and lie down in the borders of the Moabites.
And they shall come, and shall all of them rest in the torrents of the valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all places set with shrubs, and in all hollow places.
The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.
He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.
They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back in mercy: and I will bring them through the torrents of waters in a right way, and they shall not stumble in it: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
And I will fill his mountains with his men that are slain: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in thy torrents they shall fall that are slain with the sword.
One hundred and seventy years ago the top of this mountain fell in, and torrents of mud flowed out containing multitudes of fishes.
But that would have involved, as a first step, the conquest of England herself, and have cost torrents of blood.
The thunder and lightning was followed up bytorrents of heavy rain, which fell till daylight; the wind still continued fresh, but the sky cleared, and the sun shone out.
Then, because of unimpeded drainage, the little streams fill up rapidly with torrents of water, which quickly flows off or sinks into the sand, leaving only an occasional pool without visible inlet or outlet.
Hunters were on galloping steeds, and blew torrents from their horns, or were enveloped in the floods that spouted from their spear-heads.
It seemed as if a hundred gigantic mouths in the face of the cliff were belching forth mighty torrents of seething, foamy water.
Deep vines andtorrents and glimmering haze, And sheep-bells tinkling on mountain ways, And fluting shepherds make sweet the days.
Rolled into plunging torrents spring the fountains; And slope and vale and meadowland grow green; While on ridg'd levels of a hundred mountains, Far fleece by fleece, the woolly flocks convene.
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