55 Metaphors for stream

"About thirteen miles below Stewart River a large valley joins that of the river, but the stream occupying it is only a large creek.

The next stream of any importance was the Little Blue, along which the trail ran for sixty miles; then crossed a range of sand-hills and struck the Platte river ten miles below Old Fort Kearney; thence the course lay up the South Platte to the old Ash Hollow Crossing, thence eighteen miles across to the North Plattenear the mouth of the Blue Water, where General Harney had his great battle in 1855 with the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians.

A silver stream is the Coln hereabouts, the abode of fairies and fawns, and nymphs and dryads.

Each stream is a treasure, and its banks are rich with verdure.

Lofty ranges of mountains, broad and fertile valleys, streams broken into torrents are the scenery of every-day life.

In the spring freshets and the summer rains, that stream was a mighty and resistless torrent, that came roaring and plunging down from the plain above, cascading and leaping down ledges and rushing though a gorge, on either side of which precipices of solid rock stood straight up two hundred feet in height.

The stream of which he speaks is the Ashe, running close by the walls of the old house.

Where the streams touched were sometimes great whirls (one not many yards from our boat) that looked as if they would suck anything down.

From the nature of these banks, which scarcely rise in many places above the level of the water, the least freshet produces an overflow, and the stream, generally narrow and insignificant, becomes a sort of lake, covering the low grounds to the bases of the wooded bluffs extending upon each side.

The streams are rollin' gold sand.

In Nesbit's English Parsing, a book designed mainly for "a Key to Murray's Exercises in Parsing," the following example is thus expounded: "The smooth stream, the serene atmosphere, [and] the mild zephyr, are the proper emblems of a gentle temper, and a peaceful life.

But he found the stream to be a mere surface channel, distributing the flood water of the Darling into some shallow lakes about seven or eight miles distant.

What channels this stream of energy cut for itself was partly a matter of luck, partly one of self-determination.

The stream is a great favourite with anglers, and Otter trout have a great reputation.

The morn is grey, and green the brae, the wind is frae the wast Before the gale the snaw-white clouds are drivin' light and fast; The airly sun is glintin' forth, owre hill, and dell, and plain, And Coquet's streams are glitterin', as they run frae muir to main.

Every stream is a unit from its source to its mouth, and the people have the same stake in the control of water power in one part of it as in another.

The stream being broad and tortuous, beetling crags, high mountains and bluffs, and dense forests, burst suddenly and unexpectedly into view; fearful precipices abound here and there, amidst luxuriant groves and uncouth pine barrens, forming altogether a diversity that gives the whole the character of a stupendous panorama.

The stream crossed by the bridge was the mill-race, and the waterfall made by the waste-gate.

Fortunately I recognised the crest of this mountain above us, by its shape, or I might never have found my way; although the streams, when struck, are certain guides to the woodsman.

In that case, it would of course be true, that the nearer you approach the fountain, the purer the stream would be.

On the 25th of October they made their declaration that a river called Scoodiac, which falls into Passamaquoddy Bay at its northwestern quarter, was the true St. Croix intended in the treaty of peace, as far as its great fork, where one of its streams comes from the westward and the other from the northward, and that the latter stream is the continuation of the St. Croix to its source.

From the Falls of Ntamo, as far as Yellala, the stream was a succession of rapids and cataracts.

I had, however, noted a stream in the contrary directionthat is, westwards and southwards towards the Channel and England.

In the year 1810, on the 10th of May, Lord Byron accompanied by a friend, a lieutenant on board the 'Salsette,' swam across the Hellespont, from Abydos to Sestos, a distance of four miles; but this was more than the breadth of the stream, and caused principally by the rapidity of the current, which continually carried them out of the way, the stream at this particular place being only a mile in width.

This done, fire the paper with a match from below, and, if properly laid, it will soon burn up; the stream of flame from the wood and paper soon communicating to the coals and cinders, provided there is plenty of air at the centre.

55 Metaphors for  stream