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  • Contact with the gully's walls had prevented more.

    Bad Luck and Trouble Child, Lee 2007

  • The broken stones of the gully's bed stung his feet, and sharp branches scraped at his skin.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • He'd roped many a steer and dragged it to safety after the animal had gotten too close to the gully's edge and fallen in.

    Tanner Ties Moreland, Peggy 2005

  • With a whinny the four broke together, clattering up the gully's dusty wall.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • The leg was gripped by the teeth and chain of the trap, and the fox's body banged and scraped against the gully's wall.

    When The Wind Blows Patterson, James, 1947- 1998

  • The leg was gripped by the teeth and chain of the trap, and the fox's body banged and scraped against the gully's wall.

    When the Wind Blows Patterson, James, 1947- 1998

  • Cashel paused at the gully's head to check the bare ground for the footprints of goats — or, of much greater concern, rats.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • The gully's wall, textured by a net of rootlets, was about four feet high; the tamarisks waved another eight or ten feet in the air.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • By the light of his own glow he saw the gully's rim, saw heads coming up over it, and saw a pair of hasty bolts flick past as he halted, just a few yards from the edge.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • By the light of his own glow he saw the gully's rim, saw heads coming up over it, and saw a pair of hasty bolts flick past as he halted, just a few yards from the edge.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

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