The rain was still pouring in torrentabundance and the wind at gale speed was doing all it could with the flood-making rain.
Still, from the desk, resounded that harsh, strident voice, running on in an ascending scale, pouring forth a foaming torrent of menace.
The girl stopped the torrent of self-reproach that rose to my lips with a pretty gesture.
The woods through which we passed were extremely pretty, and the torrent was our companion throughout the drive.
We had two capital horses, and were driven for eight miles by the side of a mountain torrent called by the unromantic name of the Peabody River.
The torrent of the crowd sweeps over us: You think to impel, and are yourself impelled.
The torrent of a raging wizard song Streams the whole mountain along.
Earth, 'Napoleon's fierce spirit rolled, In terror and blood and gold, 35 A torrent of ruin to death from his birth.
Thus the tempestuous torrent of his grief Is clothed in sweetest sounds and varying words Of poesy.
We could get no provisions nearer than Sarzana, at a distance of three miles and a half off, with the torrent of the Magra between; and even there the supply was very deficient.
The confusion in the bed of the torrent was tremendous.
Into the depth of this ravine the rays of the sun never penetrated, and in it lay a mass of the previous year's snow which had never entirely melted, but which formed with the water of the torrent a sheet of slippery ice.
The Moonlight Sonata is cumulative from start to finish, passing from the exalted calm of the Adagio, through the graciousness of the Allegretto, to that inspired and inspiring torrent of harmony the Presto Agitato.
Could the fellows, when probably as drunk as Pat, have fallen into the torrent and been drowned!
For some distance we travelled through a dense pine forest, following the course of a stream into which we concluded the torrent fell.
At length, after traversing for some distance the mountain-side, we saw before us a deep gorge, at the bottom of which rushed a torrent towards the east.
My great object was to reach the tree over the torrent before the Indians came up, because I should be exposed to view when climbing along the trunk.
The cliffs over which my rifle and knapsack had fallen went sheer down into it; while farther on the torrent brought a large supply of water, which found an exit on the opposite side.
My purpose then was to cross the torrent at a narrow part where a tree hung over it, and to make to the northward, where I hoped to join Uncle Jeff and Clarice at Winnemak's camp.
Richard sought to interfere and check the torrent of abuse, but it had already gathered so much head, that the man seemed even unaware of his attempt.
Presently Grinson let out a torrent of expletives with something like his old vigour.
Such was the gist of the medicine-man's harangue, though these few sentences by no means represent the torrent of words which poured from his lips.
And the torrent caught the human flotsam of the pavement in its onward swirl.
Ages ago a torrent had fertilized the surrounding tract, and its dried- up bed was marked by water-smoothed boulders.
They love not to leave their brethren," said Abdur Kad'r, pausing to take breath for a freshtorrent of abuse.
The man of wealth could permit his charitable instincts to govern the scorn evoked by the Austrian's petty tactics, but the outraged enthusiasm of the collector was a torrent that engulfed charity and expediency alike in its flood.
Then with the doctrine and the will together, With office apostolical he moved, Like torrent which some lofty vein out-presses; And in among the shoots heretical His impetus with greater fury smote, Wherever the resistance was the greatest.
It was a colored nurse, who poured out a torrent of broken French and English over the runaway, and made her acknowledgments to Mr. Raleigh in the same jargon.
When in the midst of what appears a wilful torrent of absurdity, there bursts out a rush of earnest and instinctive nature.
Then after much feinting and fencing, and greatly assisted by the stout Van Cortlandt, Edwardes threw his army across the Indus, at this season a roaring torrentthree miles wide, and sought out his enemy.
On this peaceful scene suddenly burst a torrent of infuriated, half-savage soldiery, yelling for Cavignari, yelling for money, shouting curses and threats.
Long I lay mourning, as one who had lost all hope, but at last Proteus checked the torrent of my passion, and bade me take thought of my own homecoming.
If Mr. Mueller's words mean anything, they mean that a dormant feeling that there were such existences lay in the breast of man, and was wakened into active and conscious life, by the sight of a torrent or a stream.
The very thought seemed an agony, for scarcely had he uttered it when his heart felt as if it would break, and he burst into a torrent of tears.
As soon as the blackened heads of the fallen trees, evidences of how fierce a torrent had borne them hither, could be discerned, we proceeded.
The alarm had by this time spread throughout the city; but already a torrent of armed men was pouring through the streets.
The deep dry channel of a torrent checked his career, and his horse, stumbling upon the margin, rolled with his rider to the bottom.
The great danger now was that we should be swept from our feet, and once down in that torrent there would have been little chance of our ever getting our heads above its level.
The roar of the maddened torrent behind deafened us.
The mighty pressure of thetorrent kept rolling the logs, one over the other, till the top of the pile was in places thirty or forty feet out of the water.
The torrent came pouring down the long incline, black and swift as an arrow, and went over into the pool at one thunderous plunge, throwing up a vast column of mist.
Shaking this garment vehemently with one hand, while with the other he gave me a cigar, he broke out at once in a torrent of argument on the topic of the preceding day.
On one side the rock rises almost perpendicularly, piercing the sky; while on the other, two thousand feet below us, the torrent hurls itself into the black waters of the fiord.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "torrent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
