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white water
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  • They were standing at the edge of a bubbling brook that cut through the trees and fed into an octagonal pond dappled with white water lilies.†   (source)
  • Many projects were just brilliant, ranging from you-are-there white-water rafting adventures to romantic gondola trips through Venice to rollerskating ninjas.†   (source)
  • Ten yards out, the float line fell away and bobbled in a seam of white water along the surface of the bay.†   (source)
  • "You don't have milk, you have white water.†   (source)
  • Lince Floated in that white water world, Guinivere upon the River Styx, tubes intruding wrists and nose, liquid-filled lifelines.†   (source)
  • She remembered the second urge to push, and tension beneath David's voice like rocks in white water.†   (source)
  • An hour later, they had topped the ridge and hiked beyond the dangerous white water to where the Gaena River was once again calm and glassy.†   (source)
  • I let her tell me about a white-water trip she took one summer when she was seventeen.†   (source)
  • In his hands he carried on a large leaf as on a tray a small pile of white water-lilies.†   (source)
  • The remaining wing revolved as ponderously as a grinding cement mixer as the plane plummeted nose downward in a straight line at accelerating speed until it struck the water, which foamed open at the impact like a white water lily on the dark-blue sea, and washed back in a geyser of apple-green bubbles when the plane sank.†   (source)
  • The shade of the massive white water tower shielded us from Summerville, but the day didn't seem so sunny anymore.†   (source)
  • In the stairwell, the floors and stairs below were a white-water river, a vortex of cascading waves.†   (source)
  • Toilets in modern water closets rise up from the floor like white water lilies.†   (source)
  • She was rigid, her fingers clenched as Eugenides steered between rocks topped with foaming white water and sailed directly toward the cliffs, in which she could see no break or variation.†   (source)
  • Alessandro Giuliani was tall and unbent, and his buoyant white hair fell and floated about his head like the white water in the curl of a wave.†   (source)
  • Our horses ran like the little white water horses in the surf.†   (source)
  • I ate the white meal, drank the white water, received the white smiles and wondered how it could all be.†   (source)
  • The white water tower was glazed pink and the grass was an unnatural green as if it were turning to glass.†   (source)
  • For white-water rafting, do you prefer a multi-day trip, with overnight camping, or a day trip?†   (source)
  • Shay cried out as she rode through the spray of churning white water.†   (source)
  • White-water rafting and scuba diving were not part of his plan for convalescence.†   (source)
  • Soup: The white water made by a breaking wave†   (source)
  • Farther upstream it's white water, too rough for skimmers.†   (source)
  • Shay was silent for a moment, only the roar of white water and the rushing wind around them.†   (source)
  • Can you bury him?" he asked, but they couldn't hear over the white water.†   (source)
  • A woman's voice, sounding like a newscaster's, asked her, "For vacations, are you inclined toward one of relaxation, like a beach or luxury hotel, or are you inclined toward adventure, like a white-water rafting trip?"†   (source)
  • I caught a whole bunch of waves that day, mostly white water, but getting up got easier and easier each time.†   (source)
  • But every time she mentioned something—white-water rafting, or bungee jumping, or what have you—she would hold up a document in front of Will, showing other injured young men taking part, and say, "If I'm going to try all these things you keep saying I should, then you have to do them with me."†   (source)
  • Alana paddled through the rolling white water (surfers call this "soup") and headed farther out to the blue unbroken waves.†   (source)
  • You're going to love the white water.†   (source)
  • I couldn't duck dive with one hand until we came up with the idea of putting a hand strap in the top center of my board that I could grab hold of and use to push under the white water.†   (source)
  • Zooming past the white water and onto the vein of ore, they sighted the ruins just as the sky was beginning to change.†   (source)
  • Getting out through powerful surf was going to be hard because most surfers grab the rails of their boards with both hands and dive the nose under oncoming white water, a move called "duck diving," since it resembles what a duck does when it goes underwater.†   (source)
  • Once they reached the river, they shot down the white water at top speed, glad to be finally free of the heavy saddlebags.†   (source)
  • You said it's got white water?†   (source)
  • As darkness fell, Tally and David reached the white water, and they passed through the greenbelt at the very moment the lights winked off in Uglyville.†   (source)
  • Six of them took their boards up and out the other side of the valley, down a stream churning with white water, and along a razor-sharp ridge filled with iron ore.†   (source)
  • But the lights stayed on, and Tally's nerves were soothed by the roar of white water, the cold slap of spray in her face, the thrill of bending her body through curve after curve in the moon-speckled darkness.†   (source)
  • The valley dropped behind her, and she managed to make the tight turn onto the white-water stream without falling off.†   (source)
  • She slowly gained speed and altitude, and then a fountain of white water erupted behind her, and Eragon saw a pair of shiny gray jaws emerge from within the plume.†   (source)
  • As they stood for a moment looking at the white water in the sunlight, Haldir came walking towards them over the green grass of the glade.†   (source)
  • It did not look like a white water lily; it looked like what it was: the enlarged end of a sewer pipe.†   (source)
  • About her feel in wide vessels of green and brown earthenware, white water-lilies were floating, so that she seemed to be enthroned in the midst of a pool.†   (source)
  • In the rapids they burst forth like athletes, making good progress against the white water as it churned around them, slapping it down with their strokes, moving always intently, surprised at their own strength.†   (source)
  • One of Powell's eyes seemed to be making a circle of the place, examining the house and the white water tower behind it and the chicken houses and the pastures that rolled away on either side until they met the first line of woods.†   (source)
  • In the white water at the foot of the dam it was deep.†   (source)
  • As I baited up, a trout shot up out of the white water into the falls and was carried down.†   (source)
  • As they neared the shore each bar rose, heaped itself, broke and swept a thin veil of white water across the sand.†   (source)
  • As he said that, the woman started to curse in a flood of obscene invective that rolled over and around him like the hot white water splashing down from the sudden eruption of a geyser.†   (source)
  • Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and crown perish With strength that men trusted And wealth that they cherish, Here grass is still growing, And leaves are yet swinging, The white water flowing, And elves are yet singing Come!†   (source)
  • In the times when the quick rains fell, it might become a freshet and send its column of white water crashing down the mountain cleft, but nearly always it was a lean little spring.†   (source)
  • Then, up behind the great black rock, almost every evening spurted irregularly, so that one had to watch for it and it was a delight when it came, a fountain of white water; and then, while one waited for that, one watched, on the pale semicircular beach, wave after wave shedding again and again smoothly, a film of mother of pearl.†   (source)
  • But the reality was that for some years now he had been hurled along on the white water of Norman Cousins' ferocious energy.†   (source)
  • It was wide enough for two motor cars to pass and it spanned, in solid-flung metal grace, a deep gorge at the bottom of which, far below, a brook leaped in white water through rocks and boulders down to the main stream of the pass.†   (source)
  • I put on a good-sized sinker and dropped into the white water close to the edge of the timbers of the dam.†   (source)
  • Skin your eyes for him, men; look sharp for white water; if ye see but a bubble, sing out.†   (source)
  • Miriam Sassburger mixed the cocktails in one of those dismal, nakedly white water-pitchers which exist only in hotels.†   (source)
  • Carley saw deep, still green pools eddying under huge massed jumble of cliffs, and stretches of white water, and then, high above the treetops, a wild line of canyon rim, cold against the sky.†   (source)
  • It lay perhaps a thousand feet below him; and, plain as all the other features of that wild environment, there shone out a big red stone or adobe cabin, white water shining away between great borders, and horses and cattle dotting the levels.†   (source)
  • Then we reached the banks of the Elbe, and after having bid good-bye to the swan, sailing gracefully amidst the white water lilies, we returned to the quay by the steamer.†   (source)
  • But suddenly in the distance, they saw a great heap of tumultuous white water, and soon after news came from aloft that one or both the boats must be fast.†   (source)
  • The dancing white water made by the chase was now becoming more and more visible, owing to the increasing darkness of the dun cloud-shadows flung upon the sea.†   (source)
  • See! see that white water!†   (source)
  • To a landsman, no whale, nor any sign of a herring, would have been visible at that moment; nothing but a troubled bit of greenish white water, and thin scattered puffs of vapour hovering over it, and suffusingly blowing off to leeward, like the confused scud from white rolling billows.†   (source)
  • In the distance he saw the diminished dotted boat; and then a swift gleam of bubbling white water; and after that nothing more; whence it was concluded that the stricken whale must have indefinitely run away with his pursuers, as often happens.†   (source)
  • There's white water again!†   (source)
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