The path wound round a densely wooded and sombre hollow, the depths of which the eye could not penetrate, but from out of which came the song of a stream that went cascading down the rocks, and rippling among the loose boulders that lay in its course.

We crossed over towards a deep bay on the west shore, to where a stream comes cascading down the rocks, and leaping into the lake, as if rejoicing at finding a resting-place in its quiet bosom.

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 fields have crept up to the very summit of the hills, and even the stream that came down from the mountain has vanished away, save when the rains, or the melting snows send it in a freshet over the rocks where, when I was a boy, it was cascading always.

Only the stream, cascading from pool to pool, seemed to be wholly awake.

The scenery of all the passes, especially at the head, is of the wildest and grandest description,lofty peaks massed together and laden around their bases with ice and snow; chains of glacier lakes; cascading streams in endless variety, with glorious views, westward over a sea of rocks and woods, and eastward over strange ashy plains, volcanoes, and the dry, dead-looking ranges of the Great Basin.

Small streams come cascading down between them, their foaming margins brightened with gay primulas, gilias, and mimuluses.

'One of these falls deserves particular noticethe Cascade of Maraccasin the valley of that name.

But how to describe the numberless treasures which everywhere strike the eye of the wandering naturalist? 'To reach the Chorro, or Cascade, you strike to the right into a "path" that brings you first to a cacao plantation, through a few rice or maize fields, and then you enter the shade of the virgin forest.

'Now, let us proceed on our walk; we mean the cascade:Here it is, opposite to you, a grand spectacle indeed!

Below, in the midst of a never-failing drizzle, grow luxuriant Ardisias, Aroids, Ferns, Costas, Heliconias, Centropogons, Hydrocotyles, Cyperoids, and Grasses of various genera, Tradescantias and Commelynas, Billbergias, and, occasionally, a few small Rubiaceae and Melastomaceae.' The cascade, when I saw it, was somewhat disfigured above and below.

I did not know then, but have learnt since, that where there is a loud noise, such as the roaring of a cascade, the churning of a mill, or, as here, the rage and bluster of a stormif there arise some different sound, even though it be as slight as the whistle of a bird, 'twill strike the ear clear above the general din.

In such a case there was an avalanche of broken masonry cascading out into the roadway.

But the marvel of that place was the dreams of Gaznak; for beyond the wide court slept a dark abyss, and into the abyss there poured a white cascade of marble stairways, and widened out below into terraces and balconies with fair white statues on them, and descended again in a wide stairway, and came to lower terraces in the dark, where swart uncertain shapes went to and fro.

But when we came to the next cascading bit, though the mist had now lifted, we lightened the canoe by two men's avoir-dupois, that it might dance, and not blunder heavily, might seek the safe shallows, away from the dangerous bursts of mid-current, and choose passages where Cancut, with the setting-pole, could let it gently down.

We emerged from the birchen grove upon the river, below a brilliant cascading rapid.

Fog condensed into water, and water submitting to its destiny went cascading down through a wild defile where no birch could follow.

Cascading streams also shot by us, carrying light and music.

Something to live on all one's days, the pines of the Borghesethe cypresses of the Villa Mediciroses cascading over the walls in Rome, the view across the Campagna from the terraces at Rocca di Papa" Sylvia thought rapidly to herself: "Austin said he did not want me to answer at once.

The building shook violently, down to the very flags of the stone floor; from overhead, after the first crash, there came a rumble of falling masonry, the splintering cracks of breaking wood-work, the clatter and rattle of cascading bricks and tiles.

The pictures were mainly illustrations of Sawant Singh's own poemsthe lovers being portrayed at moments of blissful wonder, drifting on a lake in a scarlet boat, watching fireworks cascading down the sky or gently dallying in a marble pavilion. Here is Love's enchanted zone Here Time and the Firmament stand still Here the Bride and Bridegroom Never can grow old.

A strange figure she made, with loose hair cascading over her coat, with knickers and puttees, with wounded arm slung in the breast of her jacket.

Nissr rose again as the second shell hit fair in the hard clay of the wady, cascading earth and sand a hundred feet in air.

Through their aureate glimmer, dazzling in the direct rays of the sun now well past its meridian, a glimpse of a flashing river instantaneously impressed itself on the Master's sight, with cascading rapids among palm-groves, as it foamed from beneath the city walls.

*casarse con* marry *cascada* f. cascade, waterfall *casco* m. skull, head (used also in pl.)