The bank of a watercourse, which is the best of clues, affords the worst of paths, and is quite unfit to be followed at night. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries] Reference
'watercourse' overlooked by us, up which the enemy may make his way. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference
He followed the little watercourse straight to the marsh. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
Camp 28, situated near the left side of a watercourse of the. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
At 4.23 came up the watercourse a quarter of a mile and crossed. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
The concurrence of the watercourse, shown on General Viele's map of. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158] Reference
Down the dark watercourse she went, twisting her lithe chestnut body. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Away from the watercourse the grasses grew shorter and more slender. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
I fired and stepped back, falling, as I did so, into the watercourse. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
Continuation of excursion made by Jemmy and I down the watercourse from. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
He saw the willows by the watercourse and heard the murmur of the river. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
The empty watercourse provided an overhang, not quite a cave, but shelter. From Wordnik.com. [Star Hunter] Reference
We are the red fluid changing untainted snow into a watercourse of red crimson. From Wordnik.com. [Allah Akbar] Reference
Number 3, our last camp, was situated on the right bank of a shallow watercourse. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
Having levelled the line for the watercourse, Ernest Wilton prepared for his journey. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
The panther entered the watercourse at the centre and turned along the bed to the left. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
I somehow jumped up, leaped out of the watercourse, ran towards the villagers, and fell down. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
One mile and a half over grassy flats and across another watercourse coming from the eastward. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
At 1.27 came east half north for two and a half miles over rich undulating land to a watercourse. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
At last we came to a deep and thickly wooded nala, or watercourse, which curved like a horseshoe. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] 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
A stair from the right bank of the river leads up to the watercourse above the topmost tier of arches. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
At this juncture the Canal ceases to be such, as it enters that natural watercourse -- the Bitter Lakes. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
And he was at the edge of that watercourse when a faint sound brought him to a frozen halt, weapon ready. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
During this day's journey we have crossed no watercourse that I deem worthy of notice, except Chester Creek. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
In vain was all this overthrow and waste by the roadside, in vain their loss in river, pool, and watercourse. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
Ariab, with its mass of green fresh foliage throwing gentle shadows on the silver sand of its dry watercourse. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898] Reference
At 10.58 came east and by south up along the left bank of a watercourse with a thin margin of box-trees for three miles. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
Hastening down the side of the watercourse they descended the berg, and set off along its base, in the direction of the hut. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
Fisherman, while the things were being dried, marked the tree on the point at the junction of the watercourse with the river. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
It was still as dark as pitch, but soon they found themselves traveling up a sunken way that was evidently a dry watercourse. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
At 2.20 came south-east and east over an unwooded well-grassed plain to a watercourse from the east, with long holes of water. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
Except for a few new villages along the railways, all are to be found along some watercourse navigable at least for small barges. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
At a shallow watercourse surrounded by rushes and polygonum I got off my horse to get a drink and carelessly let him out of my hands. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
We accordingly moved after dark to a gully, which is really a dry watercourse entering the middle of the north side of the Salt Lake. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
In the dry bed of a watercourse some stones were dislodged and fell with a rattle in the stillness of the night; he bore away to the left. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
To carry a watercourse over a canal, river, road, or railway, several methods may be employed, as, for example, by aqueducts like those of. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
At 11.40 came south-east and by east towards Mount Little for four and a half miles, and reached a watercourse full of water from the east. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
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