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  • After many sleepless nights of being pummeled by inexplicable bursts of water-fall, it began to appreciate the little things.

    Moonbeams Meghan Larmore 2011

  • The sounds of nature from the jungle had been replaced by the sound of loud pulsating plantation sprinklers driven by a close-by water-fall.

    Hike to a coffee plantation - San Blas, Nayarit 2007

  • The sounds of nature from the jungle had been replaced by the sound of loud pulsating plantation sprinklers driven by a close-by water-fall.

    Hike to a coffee plantation - San Blas, Nayarit 2007

  • Horrible death was pulling at her; not a stick nor a stone was in reach of her hands, and the pitiless crags echoed one long shriek above all the roar of the water-fall.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • One morning after breakfast, when the sun shone bright, we walked out together, and ‘pored’ for some time with placid indolence upon an artificial water-fall, which Dr. Taylor had made by building a strong dyke of stone across the river behind the garden.

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • Ako studied her daughter's face, her green eyes grave in the white-porcelain doll-face beneath the crimson water-fall of her hair.

    The Chrome Borne Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • But she got Ulf to wash the animal under a near-by water-fall, and to tie its feet, and after about a day of it she sheared it quite nicely; but it would be hard to say whether the sheep or Edith was the more weary of it when the task was done.

    The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages John Preston True

  • He told me he intended to make an excursion into the interior, in order to discover the source of a water-fall, and invited me to be one of the party, to which, as I was naturally fond of voyages of discovery, I willingly consented.

    A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

  • The water-fall on one side and the sharp rocks on the other made it no easy matter to draw the boys up safely.

    Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

  • I can hear the tinkling water-fall far among the hills,

    Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page

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