cataracts

A tiny bridge, a pace across, arched over a miniature river that flowed with rapids and cataracts from a miniature lake stocked with myriad-finned, orange-miracled goldfish that in proportion to the lake and landscape were whales.

THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010

A tiny bridge, a pace across, arched over a miniature river that flowed with rapids and cataracts from a miniature lake stocked with myriad-finned, orange-miracled goldfish that in proportion to the lake and landscape were whales.

The Tears of Ah Kim 1919

The fiords of British Columbia are said to resemble those of Norway, and the whole coast, with its wooded shores, snowy mountain-peaks, and flashing cataracts, is marvellously beautiful.

Our Little Canadian Cousin 1904

"My fingers have developed what in a sighted person might be called 'cataracts', but I still plough on."

BBC News - Home 2012

Whereas the city of Niagara Falls once evoked the hymeneal and sexual – honeymooners and Marilyn Monroe – today the cataracts are a mere cloud in the eye of the slot players at the nearby casinos.

Decline and the Falls 2008

I do not think that there are any properly so-called cataracts between

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

I think his cataracts are a bit acvanced, either that or his bangs or too long, but not long enough to put in a top knot yet, but anyway, I figure the beeping ball will allow him to still play fetch as his eyesite continues to deteriorate.

madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2005

Our path followed the Shire above the cataracts, which is now a broad deep river, with but little current.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Everything that he knew about the river, all that his spies and Lord Intef had been able to tell him, had convinced him that the cataracts were a barrier that could not be navigated.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

I do not think that there are any properly so-called cataracts between

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II W. H. Wilkins 1882