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  • The rivers were currented with dust which flooded across the land when the wind bade it reenact an old tale of engulfment.

    “Death-Wish,” a 1950 short story written by Ray Bradbury Paul 2010

  • Think hard - it should be a place that you've never been, where you know no one, and which preferably has either strong-currented rivers or deep wood-cover.

    Jilly Gagnon: QUIZ: What to get Mom? Just think of...YOU! 2009

  • The jankship's passage down the swift currented river felt much different than our flatboat's placid journeying, for the wind in our square sails encouraged the ship to outstrip the current's pace.

    Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005

  • The narrow deeps of the river ended where the shore rolled into a high knob of trees; above this it spread over the lower land into a great, shallow, swiftly currented lake, having in its midst a long turtlebacked island of dense woods and abrupt shores.

    Aladdin O'Brien Gouverneur Morris 1914

  • "'Amidst the tur-bu-lent dis-cov-eries of those days, which, like cross-currented and multibillowed seas, lapped and hollowed every rock'"

    Fraternity John Galsworthy 1900

  • "'Amidst the tur-bu-lent dis-cov-eries of those days, which, like cross-currented and multibillowed seas, lapped and hollowed every rock'"

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • When it gave you the spirit, distilled the essence, it didn’t seem real; and when it gave you the gross, cross-currented, contradictory surface, it didn’t seem worth while.

    Over the River 2004

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