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Meanings of swollen streams in English

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Usage of swollen streams in English
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Avoid crossing rivers and swollen streams where water is above your ankles.
The South African
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Farms were lakes, roads were raceways through which raced the swollen streams.
The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Torna...
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They also felt the heavier tumbling of the swollen streams in all directions.
The Extra Day
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As the season advanced, rain, mist, swollen streams, and swampy ground became familiar.
The Personal Life of David Livingstone / Chiefly from his Unpubl...
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Beautiful gardens filled the space between, adorned with delicate flower trees and swollen streams.
Shadow's son
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Could cold and hunger, swollen streams, ravenous wild beasts and scalp-hunting savages baffle him?
Alice of Old Vincennes
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The swollen streams sang in the forests and canyons.
Baree, Son of Kazan
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Lincoln journeyed by horseback in the early spring on mud-covered roads and across swollen streams.
A. lincoln: a biography
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They were up on Ben Grief watching the swollen streams overflowing with melted snow and storm-water.
Captivity
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The trail invariably led to spots where the crossings of the swollen streams were not very wide.
The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, ...
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The fish were ascending the swollen streams.
Nature's Serial Story
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On rafts not half so good he had in Kash-Cush crossed swollen streams, paddling with his hands.
The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 02
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Following watercourses, fording swollen streams, picking their way over rocks and loose boulders, through mud and sand.
Blue Ridge Country
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Some of them were drowned in swollen streams, and others lost much of their pillage by rains and storms.
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts
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Inside the palisade the ground swam like a loch, and from the hill-side came the rumour of a thousand swollen streams.
Salute to Adventurers
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The teacher should talk with the pupils about a journey through the darkness, over dangerous bogs, swollen streams, and beside precipices.
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