Near their last meeting place, on the brink of the deep gulleythat divided the Crystal Lake road from the first slope of Grizzly Peak, he stopped, half tempted to turn back.
He got his glimpse just as she and Hank were climbing the side of the gulley to the road.
If the reservoir is built in a small gulley or ravine, its width may be twenty-five feet.
Indeed, the question of an outlet for a drainage system is a most important factor, and no system of underdrains can be effective unless a stream or gulley or depression of some kind is available into which the drains may discharge.
In such a case, another channel for the gulley water ought to have been made, or else the spring dug out and roofed over, so that the torrential water could pass above it.
A very good dam can be made by driving three-inch tongue-and-grooved planking tight together across a gulley and then filling in on each side so that the slope on each face is at least two feet horizontal for every foot in height.
This gulley had a water-way at the bottom of it; it was about a hundred yards long, and the slopes on either side were topped by precipitous cliffs.
Wailing terribly, she rushed down the gulley and through the arch, followed by a few of the surviving baboons, and vanished from our sight.
In a few minutes all were there, and we advanced down the passage, which presently opened into a rocky gulley with shelving sides.
I looked through the passage and saw that the gulley was black with baboons.
Our position at the mouth of the gulley formed by the opposite hills, no doubt accounted for it.
Cultivation is almost confined to these spurs, and is carried on both on their summits and steep flanks; between every two is a very steep gulley and water-course.
Then, seeing a gulley surrounded with bushes, he rolled into it, and creeping painfully to the edge of a pond, waded into the water.
After two hours of this misery we turned abruptly from the ravine, and ascended by a gulley to the hill-side, and, surmounting a stiffish ascent, found a fine open valley before us.
Such a stream, dried now to a few stagnant pools, had worn a way along the gulley where the holdup had occurred.
The horses clattered down a gulleyand galloped across a wooden bridge that spanned a dead watercourse.
In a deepgulley to the northward, greenstone appears, with black basalt and jasper, the latter apparently altered gneiss: beyond this the rocks strike the opposite way, but are much disturbed.
He set her upon her feet soon, and helped her to scramble with him from the gulley down into a sort of plateau or wide terrace running north and south upon the hillside.
They had emerged from the labyrinth and were coming down the seaward slopes, along a flat gulley between two low ridges of granite.
Here each man arranged his bundle and himself so as to cross the gulley in the minimum of time.
At the base the ice was cut by profound fissures, which extended quite across, and rendered a direct advance up the gulley impossible; but higher up we dropped down upon the snow.
So we moved with prudent speed along the base of the precipice, crossing at one place the ice-gulley where Mr. Whymper nearly lost his life.
From our new position we could hear the clatter of stones descending the gulley we had just forsaken.
Deep Rock Gulley ain't an inch less'n fifty foot from top to bottom, an' the walls is ez steep ez the side of a house.
They raked the foothills, gulleyby gulley, their purpose grim.
There were two very high hills, and we were in the gulley at the bottom.
The colonel was in a gulley just below me when a shell burst over us.
This sad work was being done, when our artillery observers noticed that the Turks were bringing up guns and reinforcements from the gulley at the back of our chaps, and we were ordered to come in.
After our spell in the trenches we were taken up into a gulley for twenty-four hours’ rest and sleep.
In the Gulley we met a swarm of old friends from Kent; Brigadier-General Clifton-Browne, an officer whose command I had inspected both at Potchefstroom and near Canterbury, with a Brigade of West and East Kent and Sussex Yeomen.
Going down the Gulley, nearly lost two of our attendant Generals, a shrapnel bursting between them with a startling loud report caused by the high banks of the Gulley on either side.
We were not disappointed for it took us to a pool of rain-water in a little gulley at the foot of some low hills.
The entrails and refuse were left on the ground in the neighbouring gulley where we had killed the steer, and next morning the place was about cleaned up by the lurking wolves.
After a few days we found that wolves were eating it, so when we butchered the next one, we dragged the insides around and put them in a little gulley and spread manure around; then set two traps, No.
Newhouse on both sides of the gulley and three traps down in the gulley near the bait.
Those who succeeded in getting a little way up the gulley were opposed by enemies on both sides of it, and easily speared to death.
To ascend through this gulleywould be a work of some difficulty, even if unopposed.
As we pass down we shall meet with a gulley or bed of a small stream, in all probability quite dry, by following the winding course of which we shall reach the shore.
Before we reached the gulley which was our homeward path he explained that a clear little stream ran through his grounds, and that in it he washed his films, plates, and prints.
Up the gulley still farther, and a pause and rattle at another gate, through which a light could be seen, and the answering hail.
There was a yellow, rain-washed gulley before him; the charge swept down one side and up the other.
Allan went down one side of thegulley with some ease, but it was another thing to climb the other.
With Caesar padding beside him, Franz started down the gulley toward Dornblatt and as he did so, his uneasiness mounted.
The snow blanket sagged, the ski trails collapsed, and every down-sloping ditch and gulley foamed with snow water.
On the east, the gulley was bounded by a gentle slope.
Plowing his own path with powerful shoulders, he went up the gulley to a wind-felled tree that cast a dark shadow.
Despite the cold wind that snapped up the gulley like an angry wolf, beads of perspiration stood out on his forehead.
He was descending into a gulley when Caesar stopped trailing and plunged ahead.
Illustration: From the topmost eminence of Little Sister, he had viewed a breath-taking array of other peaks] Presently he reached another downsloping gulley and halted on its near rim to look across.
But even as they spoke, Kaspar, pushing his feet hard against the snow, began to give way too; and the whole party seemed about to slip together down over the sheer rocky precipice of the great gulley on the right.
Weary thought he knew the place and turned north secure in the belief that the gulley ran south into the coulee he had that evening fruitlessly explored.
Going around a gulley is not always the simple thing it sounds, especially when one is not sure as to the direction it takes.
He was within the square of the Second Brigade on the edge of the great gulley when Osman Digna's men sprang out of the earth and broke through.
All through that morning the camels had jolted slowly up the gulley of shale between red precipitous rocks, and when the rocks fell back, between red mountain-heaps all crumbled into a desolation of stones.
They continued the pursuit of Yates, crossing the gulley a few yards below where Downing had met his mishap.
In their rapid flight they came to a deep gulley which Yates cleared at a bound, but young Downing failed in the attempt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gulley" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
