What is "cataracts"

Usage examples of "cataracts".

Kithorn and down by the Cataracts where Rathillien is most itself and least susceptible to any encroachment.

Host and the Horde are expected to reach Hurlen above the Cataracts around the thirtieth.

But if the Prince helps Father win at the Cataracts, maybe he will even extend the contract to include children.

In his own richly appointed tent, Ardeth pored over his maps as if counting the leagues to the Cataracts over and over would somehow lessen the distance.

Of course, the Host would make for the Cataracts at top speed, by the most direct route.

It seemed to both of them that they had better get to the Cataracts as quickly as possible.

They had continued to harry the Wastelanders all the way to the Cataracts and probably were the reason the Riverland Host had reached the battlefield first.

By degrees the thunder rolled onward, nearer and nearer, till the inky cloud burst asunder, and cataracts of light came pouring from behind it.

By the aid of gunpowder a sufficient quantity of the rock has been removed to afford a fearful footing round a point, which, when doubled, discloses a world of cataracts, all leaping forward together in most magnificent confusion.

Mountains, forests, rocks, lakes, rivers, cataracts, all in perfection.

Difficulties arose from the very outset, and not only had he to contend with the cannibals of Ugusu, but, in order to avoid many unnavigable cataracts, he had to convey his boats many miles by land.

June, 1877, he lost one of his companions, Frank Pocock, at the passage of the cataracts of Massassa, and on the 18th of July he was himself carried in his boat into the Mbelo Falls, and escaped by little short of a miracle.

From the banks of the river adjoining her place, it was about a mile downstream to the first of the cataracts for which her neighborhood was named, and less than that to the reservoir diversion dam.