Flow of water influenced by gravity as the water moves downhill to reduce its potential energy.
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The sweet flow of a river, and the unfriendly restless vitality of the sea, men may know and love.
2
You cannot stop an express train by stretching a rope across the line, nor stay the flow of a river with a barrier of straw.
3
What is more peaceful than the calm, even flowing of a river?
4
Harry heard them, but their words were like the flowing of a river.
5
He could hear the mutter of the guns, ceaseless like the flowing of a river.
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It had been going on so long now, as steady as the flowing of a river.
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All sounds were fused into one steady murmur, rather soothing, like the flowing of a river.
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But if you have two double-basses and enough fiddles on top you can manage to make the flowing of a river sound quite well.