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As he arabesques toward the rapid's end, jaws drop along the shore: John Kramer is wearing no clothes, save his life jacket.

Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

As he arabesques toward the rapid's end, jaws drop along the shore: John Kramer is wearing no clothes, save his life jacket.

Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

I learned about rivers, and how you could tell a rapid's danger level by its name.

A River Runs Through Me 2007

While we breakfasted without steak of bear or cutlet of moose, Ripogenus gradually retracted itself, and became conscious again of what poetry there is in a lake's pause and a rapid's flow.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

The canoe, torn from the rapid's grasp, shot into the smooth water above.

The Silent Places 1904

Quebec, else the great risk of running a band at that season would not have been undertaken; and he knew that hard cash would be paid down as salvage for all planks brought ashore, and thus secured from drifting far and wide over the lake-like expanse below the rapid's foot.

Old Man Savarin and Other Stories Edward William Thomson 1886

The pilot of the band _had_ allowed it to drift too far north before reaching the rapid's head.

Old Man Savarin and Other Stories Edward William Thomson 1886

All you have got to do is to keep your canoe-head straight -- quite straight, you understand -- for any failure so to do will land you the other side of the tomb, instead of in a cheerful no-end-of-a-row with the lower rapid's rocks.

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

A stranger's voice echoing through lonely valleys, a lover's voice rising so close it's your own tongue: these are keys to cipher, the way the high hawk's key unlocks the throat of the sky and the coyote's yip knocks it shut, the way the aspens 'bells conform to the breeze while the rapid's drum defines resistance.

NPR Topics: News 2010

A stranger's voice echoing through lonely valleys, a lover's voice rising so close it's your own tongue: these are keys to cipher, the way the high hawk's key unlocks the throat of the sky and the coyote's yip knocks it shut, the way the aspens 'bells conform to the breeze while the rapid's drum defines resistance.

NPR Topics: News 2010