down-rush

Even the narrow stream ceased its turbulent down-rush long enough to form a quiet pool.

All Gold Cañon 2010

Even the narrow stream ceased its turbulent down-rush long enough to form a quiet pool.

All Gold Canon 2010

As it fell it would accumulate velocity and at the same time lose weight, and the momentum accumulated by its down-rush could be utilised by means of a shifting of its weights to drive it up in the air again as the balloons expanded.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

Let Paul Peter Rubens wake from the dead, let him rise out of his cerements, and bring into this presence all the army of his fat women; the magian power or prophet-virtue gifting that slight rod of Moses, could, at one waft, release and re-mingle a sea spell-parted, whelming the heavy host with the down-rush of overthrown sea-ramparts.

Villette 2003

Even the narrow stream ceased its turbulent down-rush long enough to form a quiet pool.

The California Birthday Book Various

"In that rain?" asked Mollie, as they listened to the down-rush of water.

The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley Laura Lee Hope

Its course was now marked by a little down-rush, then a pause, then a rush again.

Panther Eye 1918

Even the narrow stream ceased its turbulent down-rush long enough to form a quiet pool.

All Gold Canyon 1906

Gates; -- the road that had witnessed, three times in three hundred years, that heroic alternative to surrender, the terrible rite of Johur: -- the final down-rush of every male defender, wearing the saffron robe and coronet of him who embraces death as a bride; the awful slaughter at the lowest gate, where they fell, every man of them, before the victors entered in ....

Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Maud Diver 1906

His keen eyes, seeing before them, possibly, the great down-rush to madness, pressed a glance into the very soul of the young man.

Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ Irving Bacheller 1904