Flow of water influenced by gravity as the water moves downhill to reduce its potential energy.
1 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 .
6 It had been going on so long now, as steady as the flowing of a river .
7 All sounds were fused into one steady murmur, rather soothing, like the flowing of a river .
8 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.
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