The heave of the sea made it most difficult for her to use her periscope with certainty, for she had chosen a bad pitch on her ascent -- the furious "overfalls" or "tide-rips" to the west of Lundy ❋ Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson (1917)
The gravel of the higher section is good riding; the upper part is often made impassable by large stones and overfalls of rock; and the head is a mere couloir. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They found some difficulty in threading a mile and a quarter of very ugly road, a Nakb, passing through rocks glittering with mica; a ladder of stony steps and overfalls, with angles and zigzags where camels can carry only half-loads. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The overfalls of rock and the unfriendly thorn-trees, selfishly taking up all the room, necessitate frequent zigzags up and down the rocky, precipitous banks. ❋ Unknown (2003)
For the same purpose, concrete slabs or large flat stones should be placed on top of the filter material next to overfalls. ❋ Unknown (1996)
The inlet and, preferably, also the outlet are equipped with V-notch weirs for flow control if weir overfalls of about 20 - 30 cm can be accommodated in the hydraulic profile of the treatment plant. ❋ Unknown (1996)
There were no waves as such, just a bubbling swirling seething maelstrom of whirlpools, overfalls and races, running no way and every way, gleaming boiling white in the overfalls and races, dark and smooth and evil in the hearts of the whirlpools. ❋ MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 (1966)
There are more reefs and skerries and underwater rocks and overfalls and whirlpools and tidal races in twenty miles there than in the whole of the rest of Scotland. ❋ MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 (1966)
In the lee of the islands the loch was black as midnight but elsewhere it was a seething boiling white, the waters wickedly swirling, churning, spinning in evil looking whirlpools as it passed across overfalls or forced its way through the narrow channels between the islands or between the islands and the shore. ❋ MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 (1966)
Again, we would be staggering through the tide-rips and overfalls that infest the open fairway of the Weser on our passage between the Fork and the Pike. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)
To avoid this we hauled up north-east and soon got into clear water; but fearing to encounter more of these overfalls we steered north-east for three miles, five miles North-North-West, and one and a quarter north-west, upon which courses our soundings were between twelve and fifteen fathoms; the bottom being generally hard sand mixed with coral and stones and often with rocks. ❋ Phillip Parker King (N/A)
On the easternmost bank were nine fathoms, but on the other we found overfalls between five and seven fathoms. ❋ Phillip Parker King (N/A)
And the meanwhile myself with Captain Gifford, Captain Caulfield, Edward Hancock, and some half-a-dozen shot marched overland to view the strange overfalls of the river of Caroli, which roared so far off; and also to see the plains adjoining, and the rest of the province of Canuri. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Cloud shadows following a shimmer of sunlit ripples; lines and runes traced on the surface of a blank calm; salt laughter of purple furrows with the foam whipping off them; tides and eddies, whirls, overfalls, ripples, breakers, seas mountains high-they are but movements and changing expressions on an eternal countenance that once held his gaze and wonder, as it will always hold the gaze and wonder of those who follow the sea. ❋ Filson Young (1907)
When they were in the middle of the passage the wind fell to a dead calm, and the ships, with their sails hanging loose, were borne on the dizzy surface of eddies, overfalls, and whirls of the tide. ❋ Filson Young (1907)
We surge round hard aport then astarboard, following the channel, through overfalls and eddies like the Dorris More or Corrie ❋ Unknown (1900)
