mountain-stream

Good God! how can that be? who could attempt to pursue him? it is impossible; one might as well try to overtake the winds, or confine a mountain-stream with a straw.

Chapter 7 2010

Good God! how can that be? who could attempt to pursue him? it is impossible; one might as well try to overtake the winds, or confine a mountain-stream with a straw.

Chapter 6 2010

The Fishing: Bring single-hook inline spinners along with the usual assortment of mountain-stream flies, and start at the lower portion of Big Wilson for stocked browns up to 19 inches.

The 10 Best State Parks for Fishing in the USA 2004

It is impossible; one might as well try to overtake the winds, or confine a mountain-stream with a straw.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

Our route wound up a valley along a small mountain-stream which was nearly dry, and then crossed the rocky spurs of some of the lofty hills.

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

It is impossible; one might as well try to overtake the winds, or confine a mountain-stream with a straw.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

When he emerged from the devious path which conducted him through the thicket, he found himself placed on a ledge of flat rock projecting over one side of a chasm not less than a hundred feet deep, where the dark mountain-stream made a decided and rapid shoot over the precipice, and was swallowed up by a deep, black, yawning gulf.

Old Mortality 2004

The habitation which he had left in its seclusion, beside the mountain-stream, surrounded with every evidence of rustic plenty, was now a wasted and blackened ruin.

The Black Dwarf 2004

It is impossible; one might as well try to overtake the winds, or confine a mountain-stream with a straw.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

Through the midst of this woodland there runs a deep gully or glen, where the stillness of the scene is broken in upon by the brawling of a mountain-stream, which, however, in the winter season, swells into a rapid and formidable torrent.

The Purcell Papers 2003