Both Uses of
white water
in
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 11 *
Definition:
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(white water) frothy water -- especially from rapids (water flowing rapidly downhill)