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cataract
1. The trader, who told us of the cataract that poured water out of the mountains far off in the west, also told of many people who lived in places on the other side of those mountains, but that’s also in a far-off land
2. Then, following cataract surgery, my father suffered a series of pin strokes which slowed him down physically and to some degree affected his mental acumen
3. The last thing that Moshe saw was Judah, horse, and passenger disappearing into the cloud that veiled a raging cataract charging down upon them unseen, but deafening in its presence
4. The ripple moved steadily downward as the now-moaning cataract charged toward the empty bottom in the distance
5. now-moaning cataract charged toward the empty bottom in the distance
6. pulverized the hul , then dropped over a cataract with a jaw-rattling thunk
7. They came upon a chamber with a small lake and cataract
8. The sounding cataract
9. Complications from cataract surgery resulted in blindness in the other eye
10. At that time this was the only casino in the cataract city and it was in New York
11. The cataract was only about fifty feet high, but it was picture postcard perfect
12. Every one will have cataract sooner or later because the eye’s natural lens degenerates over time
13. In the end, they decided on one of the guided tours of Victoria Falls that included a walk through the rain forest at the foot of the falls, as well a ‘look over the edge’ from the eastern cataract
14. The vision is cured of a cataract if there is a divine scalpel
15. Vere Q&A'ed herself from the angles of her cataract, neither seeing herself as inquisitor nor respondent
16. “Our common unity?” amongst the scattered fires, scales began disintegrating as the cataract blindness was burned away
17. “I’ll need to cut the old lens off to remove the cataract
18. cleft into the cataract
19. The Old One’s eyes, aged with cataract, shot open in surprise
20. need of a cataract operation
21. On issuing from their place of confinement, the whole party instantly experienced a grateful renovation of spirits, by exchanging the pent air of the hiding-place for the cool and invigorating atmosphere which played around the whirlpools and pitches of the cataract
22. "There is melody in the fall of the cataract, and the rushing of many waters is sweet to the senses!" said David, pressing his hand confusedly on his brow
23. They had selected this point to make their descent, having borne the canoe through the wood around the cataract for that purpose
24. He described the cataract of Glenn's; the impregnable position of its rocky island, with its caverns and its numerous rapids and whirlpools; he named the name of "La Longue Carabine," and paused until the forest beneath them had sent up the last echo of a loud and long yell, with which the hated appellation was received
25. Like his fabled Arthur Gordon Pym, I expected any moment to see that "shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men," thrown across the cataract that protects the outskirts of the pole!
26. The water fell out of this wide basin, in a cataract so regular and gentle, that it appeared rather to be the work of human hands than fashioned by nature
27. His lurking Indians were suddenly converted into four-footed beasts; his lake into a beaver pond; his cataract into a dam, constructed by those industrious and ingenious quadrupeds; and a suspected enemy into his tried friend, David Gamut, the master of psalmody
28. He stepped off the curb and walked along the gutter, but the cataract had spread there, too
29. “Will! Cate!” A half-block ahead, near a cataract of brakelight, Regan stiffens
30. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers; or a layer of marl is laid bare, and rolls down with the fury of a cataract, breaking the stoutest supporting beams like glass
31. He was suffering from the strange pains of a conscience abruptly operated on for the cataract
32. The heritage of this rag-bag ancestry was hair like a cataract of black water, eyes as blue as the sea, set in oriental slits, and a golden, golden skin
33. In the town of Gill, at E, there is a cataract in Connecticut river, from 30 to 40 feet in height; and it is believed that the alluvial region, and part of the secondary shown on the map from this fall to the place where the river passes between mount Holyoke and Tom, was formerly the bed of a lake: for the logs are still found undecayed in many places, from 10 to 20 feet below the surface; the river has evidently worn a passage between Holyoke and Tom: many of the hills on the northern part, and the sandstone on the plain, bear the marks of having been washed by water, and the channels of two rivers are still visible in Deerfield, the one 30, and the other 100 feet above the present bed of Connecticut river
34. As stated above, this rock disappears near the cataract in Gill, and it is succeeded by puddingstone
35. The river here is about 40 rods wide, and the height of the main cataract, raised considerably by an artificial dam, is 30 feet
36. On the north bank you view the cataract from elevated ground, and can see the river nearly a mile above and below—above, perfectly smooth and calm, below, forming a quarter of a circle, and tumbling among the broken rocks
37. should have shown, that the banks of the Niagara are, at this time, several hundred feet high, or, like the Potomac, at Harper's Ferry, has broken through a mountain "several hundred feet" high; but neither the one nor the other is the fact; the face of the country, on either side of the river, is comparatively low and champaign; and were it possible for the waters of the lake to rise considerably above their present level, they would meet with no obstruction or impediment, for many miles on either side the river, but would be precipitated over the cataract, into Ontario, and down the St
38. Moreover, they are not dedicated like the later texts to the divine trinity of the Cataract, Khnum, Anuke, and Sati, but to a deity whose name is expressed by a character resembling an Akhem seated on a basket
39. —, —, pressure of the atmosphere, within the cataract of, B
40. , within the cataract of, B
