4 Metaphors for torrents

The mountain torrent is a boss of palest emerald ice against the dazzle of the snow; the pine-stumps are capped and hooded with gigantic mushrooms of snow; the rocks are overlaid five feet deep; the rocks, the fallen trees, and the lichens together, and the dumb white lips curl up to the track cut in the side of the mountain, and grin there fanged with gigantic icicles.

The torrent of the mountains had become the river of the plain; romantic impetuosity had changed to classic repose.

There high mountains carry aloft their frozen brows to the very clouds, and the torrents that run down from them become the springs of rivers.

In the dry season their torrents are stony bridle-paths, with only two or three inches of water, along which the traveller can pass from the flourishing plantations, where all the forms of a torrid vegetation are displayed, into this upper region of decay.

4 Metaphors for  torrents