Some authorities predict it could be weeks before the river falls below flood stage.

The river fell silent for a moment, and I heard the breathing.

Three or four miles, at the least, and the river falls almost a thousand feet.

The water level is likely to remain high for weeks, although authorities predict that the river could fall to 21 feet by Sunday.

They will need a lot more ground from which to launch a full' scale attack, he decided, but the river is falling rapidly.

The river had greatly fallen, as he could see from the high water mark along the banks.

But the river has fallen on hard times in recent decades.

The river was falling, but the current was still swift.

Here the river falls in two small cascades before joining again to flow as one.

I went to the edge of the world, where the river that runs down half its length falls into the void.