Both Uses of
torrent
in
A Passage to India
- called Mrs. Moore, from her patch of shade; they had not spoken yet, because his arrival had coincided with the torrent from the hill.†
Chpt 16 *
- One kind action was with him always a channel for another, and soon the torrent of his hospitality gushed forth and he began doing the honours of Mau and persuading himself that he understood the wild procession, which increased in lights and sounds as the complications of its ritual developed.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
an overwhelming amount -- especially of quickly moving water