river-beds

Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst follows, and tiredness follows, and the infinite ache.

Archive 2007-11-01 Bettina Tizzy 2007

I've looked for that stone in the hills and on the river-beds, but I have never found it upon my return to my people

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst follows, and tiredness follows, and the infinite ache.

Light Waves' 'Night Dreaming' statue comes alive Bettina Tizzy 2007

Ancient river-beds and water-courses abound, and the very eyes of fountains long since dried up may be seen, in which the flow of centuries has worn these orifices from a slit to an oval form, having on their sides the tufa so abundantly deposited from these primitive waters; and just where the splashings, made when the stream fell on the rock below, may be supposed to have reached and evaporated, the same phenomenon appears.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

There are other birds on the plains, especially about the river-beds, but not many worthy of notice.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

Neither does one see how these back valleys can ever become so densely peopled as Switzerland; they are too rocky and too poor, and too much cut up by river-beds.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

Tutu grows chiefly on and in the neighbourhood of sandy river-beds, but occurs more or less all over the settlement, and causes considerable damage every year.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

Tutu (pronounced toot) is a plant which abounds upon the plains for some few miles near the river-beds; it is at first sight not much unlike myrtle, but is in reality a wholly different sort of plant; it dies down in the winter, and springs up again from its old roots.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

‘I am Chi-dubula-taka,’ said he, ‘and I am making the river-beds.’

The Orange Fairy Book 2003

We can chant about the harbour; we can say, and sing, that nowhere else does the sea come so home to a city; there are no pebbly shores — no sand bars — no slimy river-beds — no black canals — no locks nor docks to divide the very heart of the place from the deep waters.

Eothen 2003