Sloughs are channels of free-flowing water in between the sawgrass marshes.
"No free-flowing water without a full Heart-stone, you know."
She was held back by the invisible barrier of free-flowing water.
Although few on the planet had ever seen free-flowing water, the motif of waves, rivers, and water was strong in their culture.
It seemed funny to have free-flowing water so close to the man-made lake.
They were over it now, but not yet at a low enough elevation to find free-flowing water.
Like all Leptoxis, the species required free-flowing unpolluted water.
Each dam would back water almost to the foot of the next one, similar to the Columbia River today which has little free-flowing water.
But what is really needed, say biologists, is more free-flowing water to strengthen the current in the spring.
I was hard pressed to cross free-flowing water normally; in this near-nebulous state I'd never do it.