creek

• At the far end of the creek was a large marsh covered with the white cotton rush then in bloom; it caused a strange glimmering which I could see till it got quite dark. —  Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge
• On the south shore of the creek is a high hill. —  Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign
• "If you stand here and look across, the creek is a little way up to the right That is good, my lad; I was beginning to be feared that we should have to wait for daylight, and be missed. —  Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land
• The cańon part of the creek was another successful hiding-place, but the very best was at the upper end of the pond, for the simple reason that it gave a view of more different kinds of land. —  Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned
• This creek is about eighty to ninety yards wide, very precipitous banks, and from fifty to sixty feet deep, with innumerable small creeks. —  McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia

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