Dras

"I just called Dras up and told him that our vacation was off, and he invited us before I could begin hinting.

Time Crime H. Beam Piper 1934

A convoy of military vehicles from Dras was rushed to the spot where a field langar was established and the civilians provided amenities like tea and food, which had nothing to sustain them with.

Indian Army rescues 273 stranded civilians in Leh-Srinagar Highway in J&K 2009

However, the issue of Kashmir as a whole, not just the Kargil/Dras hostilities, has not been given due attention.

Celebrating The Latin Heritage 2008

In it the Dras, truly ‘snow-born,’ appeared, issuing from a chasm under

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

After walking for some time, and getting a bad fall down an avalanche slope, I mounted Gyalpo, and the clever, plucky fellow frolicked over the snow, smelt and leapt crevasses which were too wide to be stepped over, put his forelegs together and slid down slopes like a Swiss mule, and, though carried off his feet in a ford by the fierce surges of the Dras, struggled gamely to shore.

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

Dras, and the musical tinkle of streams sparkling in absolute purity.

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

Crossing a raging affluent of the Dras by a bridge which swayed and shivered, the top of a steep hill offered a view of a great valley with branches sloping up into the ravines of a complexity of mountain ranges, from 18,000 to 21,000 feet in altitude, with glaciers at times descending as low as 11,000 feet in their hollows.

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

Steep grassy hills, and peaks with gorges cleft by the thundering Dras, and stretches of rolling grass succeeded each other.

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

Thalvan Dras 'dinners; most of the guests seemed to be business or political people.

Time Crime H. Beam Piper 1934

One of Thalvan Dras 'black-liveried human servants, of the class under discussion, approached Vall.

Time Crime H. Beam Piper 1934