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1 I say splashed, for the storm water was sweeping the sand down the hill in a muddy torrent.
The War of the WorldsBy H. G. Wells ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM.
2 For the main road was a boiling stream of people, a torrent of human beings rushing northward, one pressing on another.
The War of the WorldsBy H. G. Wells ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON.
3 To force their way into the torrent of people, my brother plunged into the traffic and held back a cab horse, while she drove the pony across its head.
The War of the WorldsBy H. G. Wells ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON.
4 It hit her larboard side and glanced off in an inky jet that rolled away to seaward, an unfolding torrent of Black Smoke, from which the ironclad drove clear.
The War of the WorldsBy H. G. Wells ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD".
5 They swept through Chipping Barnet with the torrent; they were nearly a mile beyond the centre of the town before they had fought across to the opposite side of the way.
The War of the WorldsBy H. G. Wells ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON.
6 It was very dark indeed in the wood, for the lightning was now becoming infrequent, and the hail, which was pouring down in a torrent, fell in columns through the gaps in the heavy foliage.
The War of the WorldsBy H. G. Wells ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM.
7 In the road that runs from the top of Putney Hill to Wimbledon was a number of poor vestiges of the panic torrent that must have poured Londonward on the Sunday night after the fighting began.
The War of the WorldsBy H. G. Wells ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL.
8 He saw anger change to terror on the face of the poor wretch on the ground, and in a moment he was hidden and my brother was borne backward and carried past the entrance of the lane, and had to fight hard in the torrent to recover it.
The War of the WorldsBy H. G. Wells ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON.