The Amritsari wadi is more complex than our sandage, apart from being huge in comparison!. From Wordnik.com. [Sandage] Reference
The other bridge across the wadi was a timber bridge, which carried the road. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
The wadi was the smooth roadway that would lead them down on to the flat alluvial plain of the river. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
I started to move down, and as I did so, the horizon on the opposite side of the wadi was a lot easier to see. From Wordnik.com. [Bravo-Two-Zero]
Girgaon comprised Girgaon woods and also boasted of coconut and mango groves and vast areas of plantations called wadi in Marathi. From Wordnik.com. [Mumbai's 'gaons'] Reference
Arabic "wadi" is not exactly river,meaning is valley or river bank. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ARABIC WORDS IN SPANISH.] Reference
A intending to shoot up the wadi at the section withdrawing from Ikba. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
Gaza, where the B.G.C. gave orders to secure the ridges on the other side of the wadi. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
We ourselves were not at the appointed place, for we were kept pent into the little wadi. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
But all round this ugly wadi there were high and fantastic mountains, range behind range. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
But, once the bottom of the first wadi was reached, some cover was afforded for a breather. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
The bed of the wadi is from a hundred to a couple of hundred yards wide and the surface level. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
Then you see - you can move all the way from here down to the wadi (ph) line and never be seen. From Wordnik.com. [For The U.S., Cat And Mouse In Taliban Heartland] Reference
Then I saw two large, green helicopters through the trees, turning sharply into our narrow wadi. From Wordnik.com. [A Time for Grieving] Reference
This wadi is a watercourse, which, in times of rain, carries off the water from the hills between. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
One section moved down the ridge on the right of the wadi, and took up a position at the point B. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
Probably, the sun had killed the pony, and Nicetas was crouched in some wadi waiting to be rescued. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Here and there are palm or other evergreen trees, and in the low ground round the wadi are numerous fig trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
The section at A now withdrew up the wadi, covered by the fire of the section still in position at B and by the. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
At rather a large one, where the wadi forks, and which we reached at eight o'clock, we were to begin our ascent. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
Available information about the wadi was thus restricted to reports and maps, and was none too ample or reliable. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
Our counter-preparations were begun as soon as the infantry were firmly established on the western bank of the wadi. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
On either side of this wadi, distant a mile or so from its bed, are ridges which run approximately parallel to the wadi. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
We encamped on the opposite side of the wadi from the town of Arrawa, which is perched on a raised plateau of earth banks. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
This advance was held up at the last wadi which was directly overlooked by, and subjected to, a heavy fire from Neby Musa. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
Battalion moved to a new bivouac area closer to the wadi, screened from prying eyes at Gaza by a gentle rise in the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
At the bottom of the valley ran a large wadi, broadening out till it reached the wadi Ghuzzeh a mile south of the Red House. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
Further on along the wadi I now noticed other groups of natives squatting on the sand doing sentinel over the primitive wells. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898] Reference
The point at which this wadi commenced was about a mile or so nearer to the enemy than the line of our positions opposite Gaza. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
The Turk, at this time, held the line of the wadi Ballut with such advanced posts as could deny to our patrols all access to the wadi. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
The sides of this wadi are at all points steep, at some precipitous, presenting in places an almost sheer drop of several hundred feet. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
The former consisted either in cutting ramps to enable traffic to get down the precipitous banks or in digging wells in the wadi bottom. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
The course of the wadi we had left trended from south-east to north-east, on issuing from which we took the line on the western side of the. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
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