A grande dame who was present at this concert wished to know Chopin's secret of making the scales so flowing on the piano [faire les gammes si coulees stir le piano].
They followed the wolf through couleesand over rocky ridges in the foothills, and through a cañon at the base of Sombrero Peak.
It led them throughcoulees and over hills and down into valleys, and the sun was high and the trail apparently endless.
The mountain valleys afforded a splendid protection for the cattle, as did the numerous coulees with which the country was seamed.
Having crossed the Missouri just below the mouth of the Yellowstone, we struck out over the rolling prairie, keeping far enough back from the latter stream to head its long coulees and breaks.
We could see for several days buffaloes in the coulees on the Muddy.
Over hills and down through coulees the stampede led them.
Overcome by superior numbers they were forced to retreat lower down the river until they reached the big coulees where the trail crosses the river.
You remember the big coulees beside the trail; but it was a little lower down the Belly River that the battle raged the hottest.
Save us frae wand'rin' in the mountains or strayin' in the coulees when there's fine feed on the prairie.
Then the land was further degraded, and a third set of coulees was spread still lower down on the flanks, and on these last coulees the black cinder cones stand.
So the foundations of the Uinkaret Mountains are of limestones, and these foundations are covered with sheets of lava overlapping from below upward, and the last coulees are decked with cones.
After the first eruptions of coulees the lands round about were degraded by rains and rivers.
These are known as coulees, and sometimes from these coulees cinder cones arise.
Throughout the region mountains, volcanic cones, volcanic necks, and coulees are found, while the mountains themselves rise to great altitudes and are forest-clad.
One is most likely to sight coyotes by riding along the couleesand over the rougher ground.
The basaltic rock in many places crops out, as mentioned under the head of Topography, and there are coulees and galled spots.
And they watched Bat recover his own horse from behind a rock pinnacle and follow the Texan, always keeping out of sight in parallel coulees until both were swallowed up in the amethyst haze of the bad lands.
In and out of the scrub timber they wended, following deep coulees to their sources and crossing steep-pitched divides into other coulees.
The coulees run hell-west an' crossways at their littlest end an' wind up in a mud crack.
Instantly, as though it were the signal that loosed the discordant chorus of hell, the sound was caught up, intensified and prolonged until the demonical screams seemed to belch from every hill and from the depths of the coulees between.
Three times she felt the heaving plunge and jar as the little horse skimmed over cut-bank coulees and washes which her own eyes could not see in the dripping velvet black.
Not a sage quivered to show the position of bodies crawling through the brush; no rattle of gravel indicated the presence of men working down through any of the shelteredcoulees behind; yet he knew they were near.
He might be able, though alone and unarmed, to pass them and reach the coulees beyond.
Short coulees had eaten the bluff slopes into flutings, and spilled small rivulets upon the plain.
We plod past the desolate coulees In the sweltering afternoon heat.
The redskins in the coulees must have thought we'd gone clean mad, For they started popping bullets at the sentinels on guard And we had to stop our nonsense, and sortie good and hard.
No, Bull; and there are few hunters in that land, and few of your kind; and shelter of forest against the White Storm; and buttes and coulees everywhere.
The open ravages of the whiskey runners ceased and these daring outlaws were forced to carry on their fiendish business by midnight marches and through the secret trails and coulees of the foothills.
The pink light changing rapidly to crimson was seeking out the draws and couleeswhere the purple shadows of night still lay.
With a heartache which seemed to have become chronic of late, Ralston followed the Indians' lead up hill and down, through sand coulees and between cut-banks, at a leisurely pace.
Straight away to the west, with fifteen miles of hills and coulees between, lay Dry Lake; and in Dry Lake lived the one man in the country who might save Patsy.
The trail wound through bluffs and around sleughs, dived into coulees and across black creeks, and only the most skilful handling could have piloted the bronchos through.
Then from the east and west coulees dashed horsemen led by Jim Redding swinging his lariat over and over and over his head until he was in the right spot to spin it out.
Entering Sidney the posse and the prisoner took the center one of three couleesthat ran down into the town, all three meeting at the level.
And as he had not travelled far back from the river these coulees were deep and their steep sides taxed his endurance to the utmost.
Daylight found them once more in the saddle, exploring the mouths of coulees and scouring every foot of the scrub-bordered bank.
The Texan's course lay "crossways of the country," that is, in order to reach his objective he must needs cross all the innumerable coulees and branches that found their way to the Missouri.
The coulees won't be so deep back aways, an' I've got to catch up that cayuse.
On and on he rode pausing now and then to scan the horizon and the ridges and coulees between, for sight of some living, moving thing.
She wondered whether Tex would hold to the trail, or would he leave it and try to lose his pursuers among the maze of foothills and coulees through which it wound?
These coulees are very severe on the animals, in some places being very steep.
Soon after this we crossed one of the coulees making into Mouse River.
Beyond the plateau, the valley narrowed rapidly, and innumerable ravines and coulees led steeply upward to lose themselves among the timbered slopes of the mountain sides.
The coulees were packed with dead cattle; the sheltered places in the cottonwood trees in the bottoms along the river were packed with them.
They died by thousands and tens of thousands, piled one on the other in coulees and wash-outs and hidden from sight by the snow which seemed never to cease from falling.
From them he learned the direction which Miss Allen had taken when she left them, and he rode that way and never stopped until he had gone down off the benchland and had left the fringe of coulees and canyons behind.
Most of the boys had built in the coulees where was water.
That night the whole Happy Family, just returned from the Badlands and warned by Chip at dusk that the Kid was missing, hunted the coulees that bordered the benchland.
Miss Allen started out on the second day and hunted through all the coulees and gulches in the neighborhood of her claim--coulees and gulches that had been searched frantically two or three times before.
All west of there and far to the north the hills and the coulees lay black as far as one could see--which was to the rim of the hills which bordered Dry Lake valley on the east.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coulees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
