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Avalanche   /ˈævəlˌæntʃ/   Listen
noun
Avalanche  n.  
1.
A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
2.
A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
3.
A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything.





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"Avalanche" Quotes from Famous Books



... trenches leaped the Army Boys, the light of battle in their eyes, and fell like an avalanche upon the advancing hosts. ...
— Army Boys on the Firing Line - or, Holding Back the German Drive • Homer Randall
... proportions of things, one imagines the whole earth darkened by the cloud which is but hiding the sun from the spot where our feet stand. And before one has seen what wonders Time can do, the ruin wrought by an avalanche or a flood seems irreparable. It is inconceivable, that the bare and torn rocks should be clothed again, the choking piles of rubbish ever be anything but dismal and unsightly, the stripped fields ever be green and flourishing, or the torn-up trees be ever replaced. ...
— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner
... at the foot of the steps. The whole situation had rushed upon him like an avalanche. Harbert had filed his charges and the hasty visit of the reporter proved that David Cable was an instrument in them. The blood surged to his head; he staggered under the shock of ...
— Jane Cable • George Barr McCutcheon
... fired by the Arabs, made queer startling reports. The roar of the rifles drowned even the noise of the artillery. All the deployed battalions began to suffer. But they and the assaulting columns, regardless of the fire, bore down on the zeriba in all the majesty of war—an avalanche of ...
— The River War • Winston S. Churchill
... ones our skill would turn the balance in favor of recovery, yet if the disease happened to take a certain sadly familiar, virulent form we could do little more to stay its fatal course than we could to stop an avalanche, and we never knew when a particular epidemic or a particular case would take that turn. "Black" diphtheria was as deadly as the Black ...
— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson


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