Rapids
['ræpɪdz]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To imagine that you are being carried over rapids in a dream, denotes that you will suffer appalling loss from the neglect of duty and the courting of seductive pleasures.
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Examples
- Spread the sail, and strain with oar, hurrying by dark impending crags, adown steep rapids, even to the sea of desolation I have reached. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Upon its arrival from Grand Rapids, in the fall of 1893, lacking a more suitable place, the motor was brought direct to my home and set up in the kitchen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To get up these rapids, steamers must be cordelled; that is, pulled up by ropes from the shore. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I ordered a one-horse-power marine upright, two-cycle gasoline engine from the Sintz Gas Engine Company of Grand Rapids, Mich. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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