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Example sentences for "small stream"

  • About four miles to the north of Simbing, we came to a small stream of water, where we observed a number of wild horses; they were all of one colour, and galloped away from us at any easy rate, frequently stopping and looking back.

  • My landlord observing this, kindly invited me to stop with him a few days; and I accordingly remained at his house until the 14th; by which time I felt much relieved, and, could walk with the help of a staff.

  • Scarcely a drop of water could be found, and many of the wells were dried up.

  • We breakfasted on the banks of a small stream, where the whortleberry bushes were loaded with fruit of a finer flavour than any we had previously met with.

  • Indians encamped on the beach of a small stream, whom we invited to come off to us.

  • Specimens from San Antonio were collected along a small stream, bordered by a bilevel gallery forest, in an area otherwise planted mostly to cane.

  • Specimens from Los Cocos (three males and two females) were captured in a mist net stretched across a large, quiet pool in a small stream.

  • When they reached a small stream, which ran into the lake, they placed him as comfortably as possible in his canoe, and intrusting him to the care of his two faithful boatmen, Jacques and Pierre, bade him an affectionate farewell.

  • It was one of the mornings of lovely May, when this frail birch canoe, with its three inmates, emerging from a small stream, entered upon the ocean-like expanse of Lake Michigan.

  • When the shades of evening had fairly set in, a camping-ground was selected on a small stream.

  • It is built of adobes, or sun-burnt brick, and occupies both sides of a small stream which is called the Rio Chicito and which flows into the Rio Grande nearly twenty miles from the town.

  • It is located on a small stream of the same name, which flows into the Rio Grande.

  • Such a spot was found close at hand in the shadow of a big clump of thorn bush, within a few yards of the margin of a small stream, evidently a tributary of the river which flowed a mile or two farther to the westward.

  • The Kamtee-chick is a small stream fordable at the rapids, the extreme banks are not more than 30 or 40 yards.

  • A small stream runs at the foot of the descent, by what name it goes I know not.

  • We thence descended crossing a small stream at the base of the hill, on which Ghaloom's former house stood, called the Dhaloom Basee.

  • This I followed down, and shortly came to a small stream [Sand creek], running west, which we hailed with fervency as the waters of Red river.

  • At each of those villages is a small stream, sufficient for the purpose of watering their fields.

  • But the map shows a march, and sets camp among the heads of a small stream.

  • Stopped to breakfast on a small stream of the latter; after which we marched and encamped on the fourth small stream [tributary of Vermilion river].

  • A small stream will do as much work, and it will last longer.

  • Fire will not burn where this gas exists, so that a small stream of the chemical was more effective than a big stream of water.

  • With it he could send a small stream a considerable distance, though not much water went through the small hose, as compared with the larger lines.

  • If possible have a small stream of running water in the enclosure.

  • On one occasion I caught three coons in one night, with only three traps set, and in another trap, set by the side of a small stream, in a gap of the mountains, I caught three mink and two coons in one fall season.

  • A spring or a small stream is all that is needed; and a pond may be dug in each of the large enclosures.

  • At noon they rested by a small stream, ate their frugal meal, drank of the cold sparkling water, and once more hastened onward.

  • After two more hours of hard paddling an opening appeared upon their right, which proved to be the mouth of a small stream, called by the Indians "Wahsek.

  • The place they had chosen for their camp was near a small stream in the midst of a sturdy growth of soft-wood trees.

  • About this time I was riding, when the sun was rather low, up the river to the bank of a small stream, which joined the Leone a few miles above the fort, and slowly wound between its level banks through the prairie.

  • He galloped on and we soon reached a narrow wood, which ran through the prairie in nearly the same direction we were following, and through whose centre ran a small stream.

  • Near the last was a small stream so strongly impregnated with sulphur, as to taint the air to a great distance around it.

  • This is a small stream, which issues from a neighbouring lake.

  • The next morning we arrived at the establishments which are situated on the western side of the lake, near a small stream, called the Beaver River.

  • They had arrived at a spot about a mile from the village, and were now traversing an open "flat" with plenty of grass, close to the margin of a small stream.

  • One mile more thru dense forest takes us past a small stream and to the ~Little Winkle Branch of Indian Creek~, where the main ~Snow Flat Trail~ joins from upstream.

  • A climb of 800 feet above the Little Yosemite Valley takes us to a small stream.

  • By switchbacks the trail ascends the steep slope west of the falls, crossing a small stream after a quarter-mile climb.

  • Our trail turns to the right and crosses a small stream.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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