wadi

• I followed behind, subdued and not terribly interested in Arabic lessons; After half an hour or so we dipped down into a small wadi, and there we paused while Ali took a wrapped parcel from inside his robe, added to it his pearl-handled revolver and another, smaller parcel from Mahmoud, pulled the rifle from deep in one of the packs, and held his hand out for the revolver Holmes carried. —  0 Jerusalem - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 05
• I stumbled over kinship terms and the stony ground for a long time as we continued our way up the wadi, rising always towards the tops of the cliffs. —  0 Jerusalem - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 05
• The mules squealed in terror and sent me flying as they shot away down the wadi, and would have trampled the men in front of me had they not already leapt as one for the protection of boulders. —  0 Jerusalem - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 05
• Every so often the man above us would fire a couple of bullets into the wadi, and once he moved, forcing the three of us to scuttle around to the more protective sides of our rocks. —  0 Jerusalem - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 05
• “She will go to the wadi,” Ali said to me in explanation. —  0 Jerusalem - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 05

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the Same Context