The next moment the Scarecrow was swept over the waterfall and plunged into the basin below.
Exactly," replied the Scarecrow; so they soon renewed their journey, following the river for a long time until the roar of the waterfall sounded in their ears.
By and by they came to the waterfall itself, a sheet of silver dropping far, far down into a tiny lake which seemed to have no outlet.
Magnus, as a canvas-covered wagon, drawn by four ponies, rumbled over the bridge above the waterfall and galloped up to the Inn-farm.
At the bridge that crossed the frozen waterfall he caught his first sight of the lighted windows of the Inn-farm, and then his heart seemed to stand still.
Then let us trust our waterfall Still flashes down its rocky wall, With rainbow crescent curved across Its sunlit spray from moss to moss.
The phantom of a waterfall Has led us at its beck and call.
He had come to the level ground banking the creek, and was almost at the edge of the basin, when a figure appeared on the brink of the waterfall above him.
Under the great round boulder above the waterfall to the left, just where the shadow falls at noon,' he said.
This was the greatestwaterfall of the Nile; and in honour of the distinguished president of the Royal Geographical Society, I named it the Murchison Falls.
This type of waterfall does not retreat, but it constantly diminishes in height by cutting into the crest.
In the case of the "Yellowstone type" of waterfall a different principle is involved, namely, a distinctly harder or more resistant mass of rock which extends vertically across the channel of the stream.
Still another type of waterfall develops by the removal of joint blocks by the action of running water.
The thundering noise of this great waterfallis most impressive, but a good complete view is impossible because most of the chasm is constantly filled with dense spray.
Another common kind of waterfall may be termed the "Yosemite type," so named from the high falls in the Yosemite Valley of California.
The harder rock therefore acts as a barrier, while, in the course of time, the weak rock on the downstream side has been worn away until a waterfall 308 feet high has developed.
The most remarkable combination of waterfall and gorge thus produced is that of the world-famous Niagara, described in the chapter on "Stream Work.
Considering height of the fall, length of crest, and volume of water, this is perhaps the greatest waterfall in the world.
The water at this point was flowing rapidly toward a waterfall where it joined a rushing river and went on to the sea.
It was going more swiftly every moment, caught in the rush of waters leaping on toward the waterfall at the other end.
The attention of the boys was attracted by the noise of a waterfall which they could see imperfectly through the trees.
No doubt there is a lake in that hollow beyond it, and the waterfall yonder is its outlet.
That waterfall makes for laziness," Lord Percy was wont to declare, and many were the happy hours they had spent beside it.
Near the house was a glade with a miniature waterfall that filled the place with music.
However, I determined to crawl along his track, which was plainly discernible, the high grass being broken into a regular lane which skirted the precipice of the great waterfall in the direction of the villages.
I followed on his track over places which I would not pass in cold blood; and I shortly halted above a cataract of some eighty feet in depth, about a hundred paces from the great waterfall of three hundred feet.
They are elevated about 1,200 feet above the sea; and probably derive their name from a small waterfall which, after descending over their face, drops into the valley below.
On they crept across the glen, till presently they heard the sound of the small waterfall and saw it glimmering faintly through the gloom and drizzling rain.
After it was done the pair left the waggon and followed the banks of the little kloof stream, which wandered across the plain till it reached the cliff, whence it fell in a trickling waterfall into the sea.
Down the face of one of these cliffs fell a waterfall forming a deep pool, out of which a stream ran, and on the banks of this stream the new hut was being built in such a position that the heat of the sun could strike it but little.
Very soon, tracing the spoor backwards, they reached the edge of the cliff just where the waterfall fell over it into the sea pool.
Two seconds later the sound of a heavy splash echoed up its sides; then, save for the murmur of the waterfall and the surge of the surf upon the beach, all was still again.
Although in the very opening of that scene they speak of the waterfall and listen to it, nobody thought of its mysterious music.
I particularly want the drugging and attempted robbing in the bedroom scene at the Swiss inn to be done to the sound of a waterfall rising and falling with the wind.
He listened to hear if there were any voices without, but he could hear nothing but the rush of a waterfall close by, and the distant cry of sheep and lambs.
Then the scene changed, and it really was a waterfall he heard.
Starting to his feet, he looked in every direction; but there was no water to be seen, though the murmuring sound of a waterfall was distinctly audible.
Was it possible that in the wall of rock behind the waterfall there was a place where John Ball found concealment?
Surely the second waterfall could not be far away now!
Now Mukoki discovered the first waterfallfifty miles down the chasm!
Mak' heem through chasm in two day on snow-shoe," he declared, referring to his trip of exploration to the first waterfall over the snows of the previous winter.
I mean that our third waterfallis more than likely to be mighty close to this one!
We hear the sound of falling water ahead of us, and around a bend in the path, and through an opening in the trees, we come upon a beautiful waterfall pouring over the rocks like a bridal veil.
I found the waterfall easily enough, for the trail led past its very brink, and I was more than rewarded for the trifling fatigue of my ride.
The drop which would cause a small waterfall in a river, makes a bend in the thick body of the ice river.
Not very many miles from its first waterfall the stream had grown so large that my two friends knew that they would soon find their canoes.
The murmur increased in a sonorous crescendo until the full cadence of the mighty waterfall burst on my ears.
The rushing rapid and the plunging waterfall have an influence all their own in rousing intuitions of more than human life and power.
And yet even a waterfall may suggest far other thoughts--a downward course from the freshness of the uplands of youth to the broadening stream of manhood declining towards old age and the final plunge.
And packing Dominic, with his broken leg, down over that waterfall was something I didn't want to try, either.
A couple of us had taken the wood to the waterfall and heaved it over at the side as fast as the others got the trees down and cut up.
Climbing up that waterfall down the stream with a half tree trunk would be a lot harder than dropping one over beside the one above.
The waterfall above the boat was higher than the one below, but not quite so hard to climb, especially as we had the two lifters to help us.
After Abe was warmed a little, he said: "There's a little waterfall about half a mile up.
The glisten of the snow and the frozen waterfall in the double moonlight was beautiful.
It had always been free and open to the public, but this speculative individual bought up the waterfall and hemmed it in with a fence.
