water-course

The Arab neighed again, stamping excitedly, and I was just scrambling to my feet when from far away down the water-course came a faint answering whinny.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

King copied him, and part-way sliding, part stumbling down they found their way along the dry bed of a water-course between two spurs of a hillside, until they stood at last in the midst of a cluster of a dozen sentries, close to a tamarisk to which a man's body hung spiked.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

The model drew on local knowledge and science-based research to assess the implications of a climate change scenario that assumed later break-up of ice on the Porcupine River, an important water-course for intercepting caribou during the autumn migration.

Climate change impacts on Indigenous caribou systems of North America 2009

Accordingly, the army of Burgundy sat down before Nancy, in a strong position, protected by the hollow of a water-course, and covered with thirty pieces of cannon, which Colvin had under his charge.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

A narrow path, which in summer resembled an empty water-course, winding upwards among immense rocks and precipices, was at one time completely overshadowed by dark groves of teak-trees, and at another, found its way beside impenetrable jungles, the habitation of jackals and tigers.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

Behind a melody the close of the day resembles the north wind attending a field, and this water-course appears in my mind like a delicate sadness at the height of the season: I wait for a pleasure, I dream the sunflower.

Loud, Hot, and Out of Control! Our Summer Music Festival Roundup: Vanity Fair Fair, Vanity 2008

“Kanát”, the subterranean water-course called in Persia

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

I did as they bade me, and followed the water-course, till it brought me to a

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

When I struck this plain, I was in great hopes of finding a large creek of water, but have been disappointed; we have not crossed a single water-course in thirty-one miles.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

I have not so much as seen a water-course since I left the Fisher, and how far this country may continue it is impossible to tell.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007