Beatrice watched them troop off to their horses, heard them mount and go tearing off across the burned coulee bottom toward home.
Creeping stealthily, relentlessly, here a thin gash of yellow hugging close to the earth, there a bold, bright wall of fire, it swept the coulee from rim to rim.
Keith showed her where she might look straight up the coulee to her brother's ranch, two miles away, and when she wished she might see what they were doing up there, he went in and got his field-glass.
The wind had veered again, and the flames rushed up the long couleelike an express train.
As the fighters moved on across the coulee she drove the wagon to keep pace with them.
Miki, too, had learned to eat the currants; so to the coulee they went this afternoon, for such currants as these one can eat even when one is already full.
Nothing in all the wilderness is quite so good as one of these dead-ripe black currants, and this coulee wherein they grew so richly Neewa had preempted as his own personal property.
Besides, the coulee was fruitful for Miki in other ways.
Never had he known such hunting, never had he found such a treasure-house before--not even in the coulee where the currants grew.
A quarter of a mile along the foot of the ridge, in a stony coulee down which a tiny rivulet trickled, there grew the finest wild currants in all the Shamattawa country.
Ward was reading, and so did not see them until he raised himself up to make a cigarette and saw them going straight across the couleeby the line fence to the farther hills.
I trailed this jasper up the coulee and out on the bench, across that level strip between Black Coulee and Dry Spring Gulch, and down the gulch a mile or so.
He was just over the hill from the coulee where they were camped, so it's bound to be the same animal.
Half an hour later, Andy and Pink trailed out of thecoulee that sheltered the Rocking R.
Standing in the shade of the coulee wall, he undressed deliberately, folding each garment methodically as he took it off.
The coulee wound aimlessly, with precipitous sides that he could not climb, even by leading his horse.
That afternoon I dragged myself up to the edge of a deep coulee and looked over to see if there was any way of getting down.
Just when he was given over to the most gloomy forebodings, a white square stood out for a moment sharply against a background of pines, far below him in a coulee where the sun was peering fleetingly before it dove out of sight over a hill.
If they get them wagons half way to the coulee marked with a cross, they'll sure have to attach wings onto 'em.
He's drawing a map and marking the coulee where the ruin is.
He succeeded so well that two days later Chip gave a curt order or two and headed his wagons, horses and his lean-stomached bunch of riders for Dry Lake, passing by even the Flying U coulee in his haste.
Then Andy would grin and ride gaily away, and Flying U Coulee would see him no more for several hours.
Yet it was with an odd little thrill that she ran down again into the coulee where her prosaic life had found its first real adventure.
A shadow fell across them and a voice said quietly, "She didn't wait to ask any when she saved your life down in the coulee back of the Lazy D.
So she had started alone from Gimlet Butte that morning in her machine, and had come almost in sight of the Lazy D ranch houses when the battle in the coulee invited her to take a hand.
So the girl imagined the scene as she ran swiftly forward through the pines to the edge of the butte bluff whence she might look down upon the coulee that nestled against it.
Peter was no longer afraid, and the girl was no longer afraid, and together they went along the slope of the ridge, until they came to a dried-up coulee which was choked with a wild upheaval of rock.
Down the coulee and out into the green meadowland of the plain ran Nada, her hair streaming brightly in the sun, her arms clutching Peter to her breast.
The slow march was resumed with frequent halts for rest, and before morning two other pairs of coyotes caught up with them, and these were all members of the original pack that had hunted together in Sand Coulee Basin.
It's Breed, the yellow wolf of Sand Coulee Basin--there's color come into this white hell hole at last!
Shady's occasional fits of barking and her strange ways; the wolf hounds that had belonged to men and had chased him in Sand Coulee Basin; this note that rose in answer to a rifle shot and came from near the smoke that denoted a cabin.
The coyote voices roused an ache for the homely cabin in Sand Coulee Basin a thousand miles to the south; and each time one howled he said: "I'm going back.
He ran with the last of his strength, crept from the sheltering couleeand leaped into the center of a heavy clump of sage where he crouched flat and peered out at the puzzled dogs.
A badland wash intersected the flat squarely across his route and Breed leaped to the bed of it and fled fifty yards along its course, then flashed into a narrow coulee that led straight back toward the dogs.
I think this is the coulee we were looking for, but I'm not quite sure of it"; and he strode off down the gulch.
Hopalong as he flung himself off his horse and led it down into a deep couleefor protection.
He rode through the coulee without seeing a single cow and an exploration lasting over an hour resulted no better.
From the foot of the couleecame the sharp crack of Otto's rifle.
When he came up out of thecoulee he was in the shadow of the peak, and Iskwao had already disappeared in her skyward scramble.
He found signs of the grizzly's feet in the gravel of the coulee at just about the time Thor and the tan-faced cub struck the Bighorn Highway.
Sometimes it happens that an hour--a minute--changes the destiny of man; and the ten seconds which followed swiftly after that first shot from the foot of the coulee changed Thor.
Bruce and Metoosin would appear in that time over the rim of the coulee at a range of less than a hundred yards!
Thor had rushed the dogs a full twenty yards toward the coulee when Langdon dropped quickly behind a rock.
He travelled slowly and in a zigzag fashion, stealing cautiously around great masses of boulders, sniffing up each coulee that he came to, and investigating the timber clumps and windfalls.
They made their way around the end of the boulders, holding their guns in readiness, and headed for a small coulee that promised an easy ascent of the first slope.
Winthrop, however, had pitched his camp a little distance from the others, so as to be nearer his work, which consisted in removing the soil from the side of the coulee to make room for the road-bed.
They said nothing further, and while they proceeded along the crest of the coulee Winthrop, still sitting beside his tent, took a stick of giant-powder from his pocket.
At the mouth of a couleehe spoke to a solitary Indian, standing motionless before a camp fire.
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.
The big cook unerringly picked the route of least resistance to the point from which the first circle would be launched, striking every wash and coulee at a place where a crossing was possible.
From all sides, from the mouth of every coulee that opened into it, dark specks were converging upon the stockade.
Soon the Piegan war chief was with his warriors, who were waiting for him in a coulee that was not far off.
As they lay hidden by the ridge of the coulee they crawled to the top and fired.
Mounting his horse, which stood where he had left it a few moments before, he rode swiftly to the coulee where his band of horses were feeding, and found his wife's among them.
You swing 'em round the end uh this bench, an' hit that big coulee at the head.
The way she led out down that blackcoulee last night wasn't slow!
They left their places and went forward at a lope, and Pink rode back to the coulee edge, untying his slicker as he went.
With tin-cans, slickers, and much vituperation, they forced the herd up the coulee side and strung them out again on trail.
Four thousand weary cattle crawled up the long ridge which divides Chin Coulee from Quitter Creek.
Still, they made the coulee without mishap, and the trooper checked his horse as they rode into it.
While nobody riding that pace could find the trail, there was a shallow coulee a league away with stunted birches on the edge of it, which would presently rise for a landmark out of the prairie.
After this they pushed on up the coulee as silently as they could, until Trooper Standish pulled his horse up.
From where they were camped upon a ridge which bounded a broad coulee on the east, he could look down upon the Stevens ranch nestling in the bottomland, the house half hidden among the cottonwoods.
The past month had been one of rapid living under new conditions, and at sight of them it seemed only a few days since he had first glimpsed that broken line of hills and the bachelor household in the coulee below.
Through Barfleur Coulee it was a terrible march, for there was no road, and again and again they were nearly overturned, while wolves hovered in their path, ready to reap a midnight harvest.
If the redcoats catch you this side of Barfleur Coulee, or in the Coulee itself, you'll stand no chance.
If we can keep them at it an hour longer, we will be in the lee of the buttes, and there's a deep coulee into which we can drive and hold them until morning.
They were packed in a solid mass, and could not get out on the other side because the wall of the coulee was too steep for them to clamber up, as they might have done had it not been for the deep snow with which it was drifted full.
I got to the coulee as fast as I could, but he had disappeared.
As the last of the herd came out of the coulee to the open ground, a cheer went up for Stella, who blushed rosy-red, and told the boys to hush.
As I was comin' up to the big coulee I saw something move against the snow.
As a matter of fact, though, thecoulee had saved the herd from drifting many miles in the night.
Another bunch was driven up, and soon there was a smooth road along the bottom of the coulee to the open ground, over which the cattle passed to safety.
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.
When the other boys come back from breakfast all of you jump into the coulee and tramp the snow down as much as you can ahead of the leaders.
Ted found the herd bogged in a shallowcoulee that was filled to the top with snow, in which they stood up to their bellies, lowing from fright, hunger, and thirst.
The Cheyennes and the Sioux came up the coulee from the foot of Reno Hill, and circled about.
As soon as the men got into the coulee they dug a pit.
Over there was a coulee where in exciting patience they had sought to ambush the enemy.
We would go to the east of the camp, where the smoke and all of the scent would go, find a snowdrift in the coulee and unload our packs.
A skilled cowboy with sufficient nerve, on a first-class horse, might turn the herd away from the cut-bank into the little coulee that led down from the end of the fence, but for a man on foot the thing was quite impossible.
And without further word he slipped on to his horse and disappeared into the darkness, taking the cross-trail through the coulee by which Cameron had come.
A few mouthfuls of water in the fording of a running stream, a pause to recover breath before plunging into an icy river, or on the taking of a steep coulee side, but no more.
With his gun still in his hand, Cameron ran on down the coulee in the wake of Little Thunder.
Through the bottom of the coulee ran a little stream whose banks were packed tight with alders, willows and poplars.
They passed me in the coulee and took the Sarcee trail.
As for the rest of the property, it was hill and coulee and included the round mountain.
In the afternoon I was riding up the long coulee by Cat Creek when I heard a shot ahead, and in a few minutes I came upon a steer staggering along.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coulee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
