khors

A characteristic feature of the sandy beaches of the Batinah are the inlets of water called khors, sometimes containing mangrove stands and offering important habitats to birds.

Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert 2007

The Arabian Peninsula serves as a staging post between Africa and Asia for migratory species, and the many lagoons, mud flats, khors, and mangrove stands found along the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman provide ideal nesting and feeding sites.

Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert 2007

The ground the army passed over was broken, and there was scrub with several small khors to cross, so the force proceeded slowly and cautiously.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

So now the Arabs had knocked their dhows to pieces to save them; but the men who manned them, as well as the poor slaves with which the majority of them had been crammed, we found, on pulling inshore to examine them later on, had all got safely beyond our reach, far away amid the khors of the desert coast of the barren and inhospitable Nogal country.

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

What with winding and twisting to avoid flooded khors or shallow gulleys we marched over twenty miles I fancy.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

The dervish main columns which had got shelter in low khors re-appeared, and without pause joined in the hot rush for our zereba.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

A smaller matter, but also somewhat important -- though water apparently can be found in the khors for the digging, it is a question whether a sufficient quantity can be got at all times for the requirements of a railway.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 Various

Steadily, deliberately, the armed tide of men flowed over the undulating plain, down into shallow khors, swelling through the scrub, their serried ranks always plainly to be seen.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

To start with, there is one up grade of 2,870 feet within forty miles from Suakim, and the khors, through which the railway must wind, are sometimes raging torrents.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 Various

Farther on we had to turn aside to avoid wadies and khors, up which the Nile had flowed.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh