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Example sentences for "falling water"

  • There was a sound of falling water, and Leone made her way to it.

  • The primary branches are whorled regularly around the axis, generally in fives, while each is draped with long, feathery sprays that descend in lines as free and as finely drawn as those of falling water.

  • One of the finest effects of sunlight on falling water I ever saw in Yosemite or elsewhere I found on the brow of this beautiful fall.

  • Falling water makes a soothing hush, while the spaces between the grand spires afford noble openings through which to gaze dreamily into the starry sky.

  • After the highest point on the lower division of the trail is gained it leads up into the deep recess occupied by the great fall, the noblest display of falling water to be found in the Valley, or perhaps in the world.

  • Whenever nothing in particular offered itself, why, it was always pretty down at Falling Water Creek.

  • For my last afternoon--wars and rumors of wars long since forgotten--I went to the place that had pleased me first, the valley of Falling Water Creek.

  • May and Flora strolled about the surrounding rocks, looking up, with some dread, at the precipices towering above them, and at the tremendous columns of falling water, which filled in the view in every direction.

  • His drawing of falling water, with peculiar expression of weight.

  • Falling Water, mounted on a fine black mustang, carried his great staff of high office, decorated with coloured beads and fringed with scalp-locks.

  • Moreover, he wore the totem sign of his chief, who was the enemy of Falling Water.

  • Falling Water spoke, holding up a cautioning finger to impose attention to his words.

  • Falling Water himself, a grim, wizen-featured old man, sat in the middle, smoking a tobacco pipe that was shaped like a tomahawk and adorned with coloured beads and feathers.

  • Then she knew the sweetness of the murmur of falling water, the wind in the pines, the song of birds, the white radiance of the stars, the break of day and its gold-flushed close.

  • Like a strain of distant music, the dreamy hum of falling water, the murmur and melody of the stream, came again to Carley's sensitive ear.

  • All the time that she dressed and thought, her very being seemed to be permeated by that soft murmuring sound of falling water.

  • This property of falling water makes it the ideal power for generating electricity.

  • The farmer who makes use of the energy of falling water to generate electricity for light, heat, and power does the same thing--he makes use of the capacity for work stored in water in being lifted to a certain height.

  • A modern water wheel uses 85 per cent of the total capacity for work imparted to falling water by gravity, and delivers it as rotary motion.

  • At Niagara, of course, no steam is involved; it is the energy of falling water that is transformed into the energy of the electrical current.

  • The idea is merely to utilize the weight of falling water.

  • And it must be understood that the turbine water-wheel utilizes the greatest proportion of the power of falling water of any contrivance as yet known to mechanics.

  • Falling Water Valley, The Little Brown Rug, and Gold and Fleece.

  • No caƱon is too cold for this little bird, none too lonely, provided it be rich in falling water.

  • Though more than a thousand feet lower than the Kearsarge, it is scarcely less sublime in rock-scenery, while in snowy, falling water it far surpasses it.

  • The primary branches are whorled regularly around the axis, generally in fives, while each is draped with long, feathery sprays, that descend in curves as free and as finely drawn as those of falling water.

  • Faintly above the rush of the swift current there came to their ears the distant rumble of falling water!

  • Every minute now his ears were keenly attuned for that distant sound of falling water.

  • The opening to the cavern is directly behind the shoot of falling water.

  • The adventurous explorers endeavoured to get farther, for two small holes were discovered leading downwards from one side of the Hall to a lower cave, through which arose the sound of falling water.

  • I listened awhile, sensible of a charm in the sound of falling water; then pushing the sash to its full height, the sound still reached me on the pillow.

  • Tyndall might make an observatory of this cool nook, the next time he investigates the cause of the noise in falling water, with the advantage of looking forth on the romantic and pleasing scene beyond.

  • He unlocks a door, and leads the way down a steep, rude flight of steps into a rocky chasm, from which ascends the noise of falling water.

  • Saying which I strode off; and thus I presently heard the soothing sound of falling water, yet look where I might could see none save that in the little valley below.

  • How he tried to fix his mind on quiet scenes with the sound of falling water, or the sound of falling breakers fringing the rocks of perilous seas in fairy lands forlorn!

  • A friend of mine from that City of Unrest says that the sound of the London streets has a soothing, lulling effect on him, and makes him sleepy, like the sound of falling water.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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