Miss Archer's arraignment had been a most unpleasant surprise, and in discussing it among themselves afterward, Helen Thornton had caused Mignon to pour forth a torrent of biting words by saying sulkily, that if Mignon had let Ellen Seymour alone everything would have been all right.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
How I arose, gained my legs, and was swept away by the dense torrent of the populace, are events of which I am very far from clear.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
They appeared to know what it was advisable to do, but they stopped just a moment on the edge of the torrent, for which nobody could have blamed them.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton