And he related many strange things, most striking of which was how Moze had broken his chain and plunged into the raging Colorado River, and tried to swim it just above the terrible Sockdolager Rapids.
"The Last of the Plainsmen"
Zane Grey
"After that 'put asunder' Sockdolager?
"Cy Whittaker's Place"
Joseph C. Lincoln
The impassable barrage comes a hundred feet below the point where the left-hand torrent precipitates itself at right-angles into the current of the right-hand one, and the two lines of whirlpools converge in a "V" and form one big walloping Sockdolager.
"Down the Columbia"
Lewis R. Freeman