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Definition of Torrents
1. torrent [n] - See also: torrent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Torrents
Literary usage of Torrents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"CHAPTER XV PASSAGE OF THE CORDILLERA Valparaiso—Portillo Pass—Sagacity of
Mules—Mountain-torrents— Mines, how discovered—Proofs of the gradual Elevation of ..."
2. History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark to by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark (1902)
"... distress occasioned by the incessant torrents of rain— Exposed for thirty days
to this drenching deluge, during which time their provisions are spoiled, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... Titles' (New York 1907) ; Kennedy, JP, 'List of References on the Torrens
System* (Virgina State Library, Richmond, Va., 1906). torrents OF SPRING ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... Realty Titles' (New York 1907); Kennedy, JP, 'List of References on the Torrens
System' (Virgina State Library, Richmond, Va., 1906). torrents OF SPRING ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"CHAPTER XV PASSAGE OF THE CORDILLERA Valparaiso—Portillo Pass—Sagacity of
Mules—Mountain-torrents— Mines, how discovered—Proofs of the gradual Elevation of ..."
6. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"Through the whole glen, which is ten miles long, torrents were boiling and foaming,
and sending up in every direction spray like the smoke of great fires. ..."
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