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  • Fronds of red chokeberry and wild indigo fringed the falls, and yellow poplars overhung the river below the cataract's pool, so thick that no more than a fugitive gleam from the water's surface showed between the banks of lush vegetation.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • Within sound of the thundering cataract's roar once worshipped the roaming sons of the forest in all their primitive freedom.

    Birch Bark Legends of Niagara Owahyah

  • This was for him a favorite place of resort, and here, stretched on the ground, he would lie for hours, with his eyes fastened on the foaming water, listening to the cataract's roar, as if it soothed his humor.

    The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams

  • Through the fir trees 'cooling vista rose the cataract's white spray;

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

  • To pass apparently o'er rugged rocks, ascend high mountains, and descend to vaults; hear the close baying of the forest wolf, and the loud cataract's terrific roar; and now, e'en now, perhaps, to stand upon the verge of some stupendous precipice ----

    The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810

  • In the cataract's mighty roar may he not hear a voice proclaiming the anger of an unreconciled God?

    Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

  • The cataract's half-sphere of crystal clearness framed them as though they formed some dreadful picture.

    Jacqueline of Golden River H. M. Egbert 1919

  • I told her that the soft fingers of water had carved this valley three thousand feet into the solid granite, and that ice had polished its walls, and I estimated for her the ages since the Merced River flowed at the level of the cataract's brink.

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

  • The fatuous groom stood heedlessly at the cataract's verge.

    The Wrong Twin Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • We were in another world, now that we had heard the first cataract's roar, and left it behind; a world utterly unlike any conceptions we had formed of Egypt.

    It Happened in Egypt 1889

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