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• "Why the stream runs swiftly enough for them to be swept away Both Jack and Dick gazed eagerly out over the swift river; but the black figures of the young Zulus seemed to disappear in the darkness, and for some few minutes there was an excited pang while they listened to the bubbling of the water against the fore wheels of the waggon, or the plashing made by the oxen as they lazily moved their legs, apparently enjoying the pleasant coolness of the water after their toilsome march I ought not to have allowed them to go," said Mr Rogers suddenly. —  Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers
• "Now, all stand back, here goes He shot the stream suddenly down at the base of the tree, holding the nozzle close so that the plashing was loud and the spray diffused. —  Tom Slade at Temple Camp
• The one unceasing rustle of the main stream was frayed along its margin into a myriad finer noises of murmuring and plashing, as the massed foliage on a bough dwindles at its edges into more delicate traceries of distinct sprays and leaves. —  Strangers at Lisconnel
• I have seen flocks streaming south in the fall so large that they were flowing over from horizon to horizon in an almost continuous stream all day long, at the rate of forty or fifty miles an hour, like a mighty river in the sky, widening, contracting, descending like falls and cataracts, and rising suddenly here and there in huge ragged masses like high-plashing spray. —  The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
• The bottoms were plashing, the drams all full, and the small rivulets and streams about the country were above their hanks, whilst the larger rivers swept along with the hoarse continuous murmurs of an unusual flood. —  Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One

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