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noun

Torrent n.

A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice. "The roaring torrent is deep and wide."

Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence. "At length, Erasmus, that great injured name,... Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age."

adjective

Torrent adj. Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream. "Waves of torrent fire."

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Etymology of 'Torrent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Torrent" Quotes from Famous Books

... springing up, the gardens of the Villa Carlotta, and so forth. Evelyn had carelessly asked the old man whether he had been in any of the fighting of '59, and in an instant, under her eyes, he became another being. Out rolled a torrent of speech; the oars lay idly on the water; and through the man's gnarled and wrinkled face there blazed a high and illumining passion. Novara and its beaten king, in '49; the ten years of waiting, when a whole people bode its time, in a gay, grim silence; the grudging victory of Magenta; the ...

— Lady Rose's Daughter • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... He was swept along as by a torrent. Fixed on him were the small bead eyes of the priest, darting a light, like a flame on oil. And when the Emperor gasped quickly and sprang to his feet with hands clenched in the manner of a strong man, ...

— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

... his teeth. "And woe unto you too, race of vipers, bladders of wind! As the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so your root will be rottenness and your seed go up as dust. Fear will engulf you like a torrent. The high peaks will be broken, the mountains will sever, and night be upon all. The valleys and hills will be strewn with your corpses, the rocks will run with your blood, the plain will drink it, and the vultures feast on your flesh. Woe unto you all, I say, that ...

— Mary Magdalen • Edgar Saltus

... therefore chiefly that which I am best able to teach: and the rather, that it is only in this school that you can follow out the study either of natural history or landscape. The form of a wild animal, or the wrath of a mountain torrent, would both be revolting (or in a certain sense invisible) to the calm fantasy of a painter in the schools of crystal. He must lay his lion asleep in St. Jerome's study beside his tame partridge and easy slippers; lead the ...

— Lectures on Art - Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 • John Ruskin

... America is so associated with the idea of emigration, that to announce an intention of crossing the Atlantic, rouses the interfering propensity of friends and acquaintances, and produces such a torrent of queries and remonstrances, as will require a considerable share of moral courage to listen to and resist. All are on the tiptoe of expectation, to hear what the inducements can possibly be for travelling ...

— A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America • S. A. Ferrall

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