rapids

• But the average time required to ascend the rapids was from ten to twelve days, and three or four to descend With the later coming loyal refugees was introduced another kind of flat bottomed boat. —  The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816
• Furthermore, the rapids were nearly a mile and a half in length, beyond which was about a mile of comparatively quiet water, and then came a cataract of over a hundred feet in perpendicular height, with another half-mile of rapids beyond it, before the river once more widened out sufficiently to be navigable. —  Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess
• The rapids, as Ainley noted, grew worse. —  A Mating in the Wilds
• I fired as quickly and the savage vanished with a yell of pain We were almost upon the rapids, and half a minute more would see us plunged into the seething, foaming slide of angry waters. —  The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada
• Now our red enemies had vanished as swiftly and noiselessly as the deer; there was no sound but the droning chant of the rapids, and the singing of the birds in the forest trees But five of us were left; we had been eight that morning. —  The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada

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