Both Uses of
torrent
in
Walkabout
- The splash was cataclysmic, loud as a whip-crack, echoing round the encircling rock; the spray was torrential, like the collapsing of a miniature waterspout; and the concussion, in the confined, rock-bound pool, was overwhelming, like the explosion of a depth-charge.†
Chpt 12torrential = overwhelming
- That evening they came to a bend in the lagoon, and rounding this, saw ahead of them the valley-end: a sheer precipice of granite, and at its base a dark tunnel out of which an underground river flowed in a smooth pouring torrent.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
an overwhelming amount -- especially of quickly moving water