swift-rushing

Instead of philosophers like Newton and Locke, he had to find the pride and safety of his country in swift-rushing troopers like Winterfeld and Ziethen.

Voltaire 2007

When the weapons finished rising, they bobbed about for a moment like twigs in a swift-rushing stream.

Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992

The swift-rushing river found its channel blocked by the canyon wall on the right side, the cliff running at right angles to the course of the stream.

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

There were no roads through the country over which they made their way, only high mountains to be climbed by rocky paths, deep valleys into which the sun hardly looked during half the year, and swift-rushing streams, cold as ice, and treacherous to the surest foot and the strongest arm.

Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Various

Frank fired again, and his bullet struck up the dust, missing the swift-rushing animal by a couple of feet.

The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

The rapids, or cataracts, compared well with those passed above, connected in some instances by swift-rushing water instead of the quiet pools which were usually found between the rapids.

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

Through the darkness came a swift-rushing animal, which

History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra

Yet I grew to like this quiet highway, and when years after I was in Amsterdam the resemblance of its streets to those of the Friends here at home overcame me with a crowd of swift-rushing memories.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

Whether we spoke of it or not, each one of us listened expectantly for the swift-rushing scream of a high-velocity shell, or the long-drawn sough of an approaching 5·9.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

In such rapids as this we often found the line of waves in the swift-rushing centre to be several feet higher than the water along the shore.

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico