Both Uses of
torrent
in
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
- They went downriver in a torrential rain, the young wife and the Bishop cowering under a poly-ethelene sheet.†
Chpt 3.12torrential = overwhelming
- In the night the heaviest of the spring rains fell in torrents as the young vicar struggled with the one fact of his life about which no man has doubt and yet is never ready to meet.†
Chpt 4.22 *torrents = overwhelming amounts
Definition:
an overwhelming amount -- especially of quickly moving water