Word: stream
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Like withered hopes on the stream of years...
...brave fireman and his precious burden must perish in the flames, but in a moment he appeared at a window and called out lustily to the pipemen below, "Put on that three-inch pipe;" and when they had done it, he cried, "Now throw me the strongest stream you can, right in this window;" and in dashed the stream with powerful force, right through the casement where he stood. Well, sir, I never should have believed it, if I had not stood right there and seen it; but, sir, that man took the child under one arm and throwing...
Your sweet voice seemed a bubbling stream...
...chapel choir's singing is like drift-wood floating on a stream - it drags on the bars, but don't amount to a dam. - Princetonian...
...energetic row slowly, or paddle down to Iffley only, or perhaps go on through the lock to Sandford, take their shandigaff there, and then turn back; or else, taking a boat above the bridge, they row up to the charming little inn at Godstow, and come back with the stream. The lazier content themselves with punting up the Cherwell to a shady place, fastening their boats to a tree, and then spending a delightful afternoon in reading or what not in their boats, under the overhanging trees...