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Definition:a waterfall or downpour
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Next moment they were flying downstream once more, with Allnutt attentive to the engine and Rose at the tiller, staring rigidly forward to pick her course through the weltering foam of the cataract ahead.
Cecil Scott Forester. The African Queen, p.97 (1935)
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And it shall rain into thy lap, no shower,
But floods of gold, whole cataracts, a deluge,
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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My fall was stopped by a terrible squash, that sounded louder to my ears than the cataract of Niagara; after which, I was quite in the dark for another minute, and then my box began to rise so high, that I could see light from the tops of the windows.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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deep as the thunder crashed, fierce and frequent as the lightning gleamed, cataract-like as the rain fell during a storm of two hours’ duration, I experienced no fear and little awe.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre
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speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering motion, and sending forth to the winds an appalling voice, half shriek, half roar, such as not even the mighty cataract of Niagara ever lifts up in its agony to Heaven.
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The rain no longer fell in cataracts as on the preceding evening; instead, it fell incessantly, fine, sharp and penetrating;
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby
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