1 At a wild torrent which swept out of a ravine they called a halt and watered their horses, while they partook of a hasty breakfast.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 2 He followed one for a mile or more until he came to a mountain torrent which he was sure that he had never seen before.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 3 Panting for breath, the old man stammered for a word; and in that instant checked the torrent of his wrath, and changed his whole demeanour.
4 "Yes, I did write it," she cried, pouring out her soul in a torrent of words.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor 5 The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss, from which the spray rolls up like the smoke from a burning house.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem 6 The outer door would not open to our knock, and nothing more substantial than a torrent of bad language came from behind it.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS 7 He started to speak, a stricken look on his face, but she stemmed his words with a torrent of her own.
8 Fifth Avenue had become a nightly torrent of carriages surging upward to the fashionable quarters about the Park, where illuminated windows and outspread awnings betokened the usual routine of hospitality.
9 A confluent small-pox had in all directions flowed over his face, and left it like the complicated ribbed bed of a torrent, when the rushing waters have been dried up.
10 It was not merely the man's words, the torrent of his eloquence.
11 The bed of the former torrent was choked with the bodies of horses and splintered parts of war machines.
12 At the first sound of his torrent of words Colin had been so surprised that he had only sat up and listened as if he were spellbound.
13 A torrent, whose bed was dry, led into a deep gorge.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 14 And Monte Cristo accompanied these words by the gift of two gold pieces, which produced a torrent of thanks and blessings from the concierge.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 43. The House at Auteuil. 15 I think it is time to stop this torrent of mortality.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 80. The Accusation.