I wondered about the word coulee in the old song: "... they feed in the coulees and water in the draws ...". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 4] Reference
"Now, this coulee, which is the scene of these here operations, is so located that there's only one way out. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy With the U. S. Foresters] Reference
When they did, the coulee was a mile away. From Wordnik.com. [Nomads of the North] Reference
Presently Welborn and Jim came up from the coulee. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
"Looks like we've gone off the road into a coulee.". From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel's Lady]
Later, climbing the coulee hills in the sandy dusk. From Wordnik.com. [thomas mcgrath | letters to an imaginary friend « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
"Didn't any of you think of scouting down the coulee?". From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference
Then he rode slowly forward to the brink of a deep coulee. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference
I could see the coulee that I had raced down and hidden inside. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Rainbow] Reference
“Fling it in the coulee,” one of the boys called after him. From Wordnik.com. [The Convict and Other Stories] Reference
They're up to their bellies in snow in a coulee, and won't stir. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference
Suddenly, the coulee was lit by an eye-watering white brilliance. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Rainbow] Reference
Couldn't see you from down in the coulee when I fired at that bird. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
Landy turned from the path and rode down a coulee that led to Brushy. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
Abruptly the eagle swooped down into the coulee out of sight and came up. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
As I was comin 'up to the big coulee I saw something move against the snow. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference
Shadows welled in the coulee and its ravines as the sun sank toward rimrock. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
One of the dishes we're offering here is tortellini with roasted tomato coulee. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2009] Reference
We walked along the coulee and stood on the spot where I had shot the hooded man. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Rainbow] Reference
The coulee itself was simple to make, thanks Dorie but the photographing was another story. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
As a matter of fact, though, the coulee had saved the herd from drifting many miles in the night. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference
She and others believe improving the coulee would prevent a wall of water from rushing downstream. From Wordnik.com. [Devils Lake, North Dakota, Swallows Land And Buildings] Reference
I wormed and twisted around until I got up to that coulee, and sure enough, it was what I thought. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
Our investigation into the accident by the coulee had eaten up time that Alafair may not have had. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Rainbow] Reference
Looking to the bottom of the coulee, Carl saw nothing but snow, where he had expected to find a dead horse and rider. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference
The stage had gone lumbering and swaying down the bank of the coulee, and before it reached the bottom it turned on its side. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference
"The coulee runs out about a mile to the west, and straight to the north, up a wide swale, lies the ranch house in full view.". From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference
In the brush and along the river's edge where the cottonwoods stood, and in every little coulee, or hollow, back of the camps. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's] Reference
"We'll have to ask you to walk to the bottom o 'this coulee, if y'u don't want to be scrambled about on the bottom o' the coach.". From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference
He whistled to the horses and they plunged into the black shadows of the coulee up which the trail rose in steep ascent from the valley. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Furrows] Reference
His ranch house was situated at the head of a narrow canyon, or coulee, that led up into steep, barren hills down which no horse could go. From Wordnik.com. [Injun and Whitey to the Rescue] Reference
Well here's how! coulee air services carbon cub Yakima River frozen-Ellensburg canyon flight. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Orange peels and newspapers may lead to cheaper and cleaner fuel] Reference
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