To Conan's ears came a vast torrent of sound, rising and rising in frenzy: 'The king is dead!

Mime had not been cut off in many years from the vast torrents of data that washed over his house like an invisible ocean.

The Welland was a vast light-brown torrent obliterating the floor of the gentle valley, almost five hundred metres wide.

Edward Blake, Doctor of Cybernetics, one of the original Colossus design team, now Director of Input, responsible for the smooth, unimpeded flow of the vast torrent of information constantly fed to the computer, was superficially a genial man.

Almost everyone agrees that greater Internet efficiency will be crucial as vast new torrents of data pour onto the network through new voice and video communications services.

A vast torrent of dark wine was pouring from the hole, roaring and foaming as it met the lake's rising surface.

The whole river (no trifling one) divided by one rock into two vast torrents pours down a perpendicular precipice of near fourscore feet: The deluging force of the water throws up such a foam and misty rain, that the sun never shines without a large and brilliant rainbow appearing...

As the door bursts open, a vast torrent of blood-flecked yellow-green mucus comes smashing down into the stairwell, settling into most of the bottom half of it.

The Itaipú Dam is highly impressive; at some 8km long and 200m high, it is a memorable sight, especially when the river is high and a vast torrent of overflow water cascades down the spillway.