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Here and there, thin cows crop starveling shrubs which have grown on the bank of some _oued_ run dry.

Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903

"A little more, and we could not have crossed," said Maïeddine, when they had mounted up safely on the other side of the oued.

The Golden Silence 1901

By and by they came to an oued, which should have been a dry, stony bed without a trickle of water; but half an hour's downpour had created a river, as if by black magic; and Victoria could guess the force at which it was rushing, by the stout resistance she felt Guelbi had to make, as he waded through.

The Golden Silence 1901

Far away, eighteen miles distant across the sands, she could see the twenty thousand domes of Oued Tolga, the desert city which had taken its name from the older Zaouïa, and the oued or river which ran between the sacred edifice on its golden hill, and the ugly toub-built village, raised above danger of floods on a foundation of palm trunks.

The Golden Silence 1901

In the _oued_ their womenkind were washing the variegated family rags.

In Morocco Edith Wharton 1899

One of these villages seemed to be inhabited entirely by blacks, big friendly creatures who came out to tell us by which trail to reach the bridge over the yellow _oued_.

In Morocco Edith Wharton 1899

There was a narrow strip of desert to be crossed, and then a sudden descent over rocks, down to an _oued_ or river-bed, which gave water to the mud village high up on the other side.

A Soldier of the Legion 1889

This was the way the oasis dwellers had taken after a visit of curiosity to the camp; and as the night was bright and not cold, some might still be lingering in the _oued_, bathing their feet in the little stream of running water among the smooth, round stones.

A Soldier of the Legion 1889