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Example sentences for "white water"

  • It might be white water, or it might be only the last rays of the setting sun tipping the combs of the regular seas.

  • It was easy enough to avoid all such breakers as would be dangerous to a boat, by simply keeping out of white water; but the Bridget could pass over most of the reefs with impunity, on account of the depth of the sea on them.

  • The next evening twenty young people went off together in sleighs, got their supper at White Water, danced there until midnight, and did not reach home until three in the morning.

  • I've been trying to do a little business for father in White Water to-day, and met with my usual run of luck--none at all.

  • We have had many camps in many lands but none more beautiful than the one at the "White Water.

  • October had slipped into November when we left the temple and shifted camp to the other side of the Snow Mountain at the "White Water.

  • White water dashed in over the up-stream gunwale and mingled with green water poured over the down-stream.

  • As it was, the contrary brute simply took the bit in her teeth and went waltzing straight for the reef of barely submerged rock at the head of the steeply cascading pitch of white water.

  • The Mule repeated her roll-and-reduce tactics every time she came to a stretch of white water.

  • The river was broad and widening, with a comparatively slow current and only occasional stretches of white water.

  • Middle and Lower Rapids were just straight, fast, white water, and we ran them without trouble.

  • There was a quarter-mile of white water yet, but we were far enough down now so that the loss of an oar or any other mishap wouldn't leave the skiff to run into those wallowing rollers over against the further cliff.

  • I just touched the crest of a wave, there was a flicker of white water, and I shot off again into the air.

  • Suddenly she stood on end, remained poised there for a perceptible fraction of time, and then slid down backwards and disappeared in a smother of white water.

  • But every few minutes a wave steeper than the rest, or which broke at the wrong moment, would drive over the two men and smother them under a weight of white water.

  • Nymphæa alba, White Water Lily:--in the Boyne and other rivers.

  • Nymphæa alba, White Water Lily:--among the lakes in the western parts.

  • He's walkin' white water," replied the old man.

  • Behind him the big logs bent in dignified reminiscence of his tread, and slowly rolled over; the little logs bobbed frantically in a turmoil of white water, disappearing and reappearing again and again, sleek and wet as seals.

  • Now that you're such an ace in white water, let's you and me go through some rapids.

  • You'll soon learn confidence after running a few pieces of white water, and you'll learn to like it, I'm sure.

  • Of course, we would have to get a little to one side of that long, rolling ridge of white water.

  • They learned how to keep their heads when engaged in the passage of white water, how to avoid hidden rocks, as well as dangerous swells and eddies.

  • When I was wrecked on White Water Island, you played the man.

  • The reef Helen had discovered off the northwest coast they called "White Water Island," because of the breakers.

  • He ran out to White Water Island, and wrote an earnest warning on the black reef, and, this time, he wrote with white on black.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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