Both Uses of
torrent
in
War and Peace
- The rain was descending in torrents, and Rostov, with a young officer named Ilyin, his protege, was sitting in a hastily constructed shelter.†
Chpt 9 *torrents = overwhelming amounts
- Then all at once she remembered the tortures of suspense she had experienced for the last fortnight, and the joy that had lit up her face vanished; she frowned and overwhelmed Pierre with a torrent of reproaches and angry words.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
an overwhelming amount -- especially of quickly moving water