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Example sentences for "swale"

Lexicographically close words:
swagman; swagmen; swags; swain; swains; swales; swaller; swallered; swallow; swallowed
  1. The Eden well fraught with samon, descendeth (as I heare) from the hils in Athelstane moore at the foot of Hussiat Moruell hil, where Swale also riseth, and southeast of Mallerstang forrest.

  2. You see, on the swale side of the line, right against me trail, there's one of these scrub wild crabtrees.

  3. The first thing he saw as he crossed the swale was the big bays in the yard.

  4. The edge of the swale was filled with milkweed, and other plants beloved of them, and the air was golden with the flashing satin wings of the monarch, viceroy, and argynnis.

  5. When he turned east and reached Sleepy Snake Creek, sliding through the swale as the long black snake for which it was named, he sat on the bridge and closed his burning eyes, but they would not remain shut.

  6. The sound of her feet and the humming of the bees alarmed the rattler, so it stopped across the trail, lifting its head above the grasses of the swale and rattling inquiringly--rattled until the bees were outdone.

  7. The swale bent flat before heavy gusts of wind, and the big black chicken swept lower and lower above the swamp.

  8. McLean entered the swale and hunted up the bark.

  9. He was so motionless; feathers, fur, and gauze were so accustomed to him, that all through the swale they continued their daily life and forgot he was there.

  10. Coming from a long day on the trail, Freckles saw Duncan's children awaiting him much closer the swale than they usually ventured, and from their wild gestures he knew that something had happened.

  11. He had found that places of swamp and swale were few compared with miles of solid timber-land, concealed by summer's luxuriant undergrowth.

  12. The lilt of a lark hanging above the swale beside them was not sweeter than the sweetness of his voice.

  13. The Bird Woman plunged into the swale at the mouth of Sleepy Snake Creek, and came wading toward them, with a couple of cameras and dripping tripods.

  14. Up the valley of the Swale down which the surging waters of the river, after stormy weather, gleam in their green meadowy trough beneath the folding hills, the outlook hence is indeed a very memorable one.

  15. Nothing need be said, or rather nothing can be said, here of the upper course of the Swale growing wilder as it approaches its romantic source upon the borders of Westmoreland in the clefts of the Pennine range above Kirby Stephen.

  16. And as "Brave Pudsay" made a famous leap from the top of a cliff into or over the Ribble, so here one Williance has likewise immortalised himself and given his name to a height above the Swale outside the town.

  17. Nowhere was there any sign that Quintana had come down to the edge among the shrubs and swale grasses.

  18. At this point a ravine or more properly a swale ran up the hill parallel to our breastworks.

  19. When in a small swale or depression in the ground, near the center of the field, the abattis was discovered in front of the works.

  20. The water moistened a small swale that lay beneath the spot, which yielded, in return for the fecund gift, a scanty growth of grass.

  21. A swale of low land lay near the base of the eminence; and as it was still fringed with a thicket of alders and sumack, it bore the signs of having once nurtured a feeble growth of wood.

  22. A rustling in the low bushes which still grew, for some distance, along the swale that formed the thicket on which the camp of Ishmael had rested, caught his ear, at the moment, and cut short the soliloquy.

  23. I know not the meaning of all you wish to say, Dr.

  24. Therefore it was with a pricking sense of the familiar that I followed a twilight trail of smoke, a year or two later, to the swale of a dripping spring, and came upon a man by the fire with a coffee-pot and frying-pan.

  25. The length of the blossom stalk conforms to the rounded contour of the plant, and of these there will be a million moving indescribably in the airy current that flows down the swale of the wash.

  26. The campoodies are near the watercourses, but never in the swale of the stream.

  27. With the hay in that swale for winter, browse in this hard wood growth in summer, he could keep cattle right off.

  28. A group of them grew in a swale below the cabin, tall and fine; the earth under them was slippery and brown with needles.

  29. So he named it the Golden Fortune, and told no man what he had found, but went down to the town which lies in a swale at the foot of Kearsarge, and brought back as much as was needful for working the mine in a simple way.

  30. See Swale Vincent, Internal Secretion and the Ductless Glands, 1912; F.

  31. In the precipitancy of her descent, in the headlong hurry and indecorum with which she moved through swale and sunlight and between boulders and clumps of rhododendron, there was yet something of cold decision and steadfastness to purpose.

  32. Her dress came but little more than half-way down her bare, symmetrical and richly polished legs, and it was open at the throat to show glimpses of her small brown breasts and of the swale between.

  33. The marshes extend along the Swale to Whitstable, whence stretches a low line of clay and sandstone cliffs towards the Isle of Thanet, when they become lofty and grand, extending round the Foreland southward to Pegwell Bay.

  34. The marsh lands along the banks of the Thames, Medway, Stour and Swale consist chiefly of rich chalk alluvium.

  35. This bit of the swale from the lower edge of the gravelly slope to the edge of the woods on the opposite slope was the lair of a dragon.

  36. There are moments when I should be glad to kill him, yet I doubt if the swale would be quite so wild and thrilling a spot if I knew there was no dragon to meet me as I crossed.

  37. He had too long dictated terms in this part of the swale to crawl aside for me.

  38. Scarce had we come near enough to observe this road plainly, and the crushed ferns and swale grasses in the new waggon ruts, when we heard horses coming at a great distance.

  39. And, of a sudden, in the swale ahead I saw sparks whirling up in clouds, but perceived no fire.

  40. Nobody spoke, but I knew that every eye was fixed on those Indian signal-fires as we moved rapidly forward into the swale country where swampy willows spread away on either hand and little pools of water caught the starlight.

  41. And now, in the centre of the turbulent whirl of living sparks, I saw a slim and supple shape, like a boy warrior stripped for war, and dancing there all alone amid the gold and myriad greenish dots of light eddying above the swale grass.

  42. One swale seemed to so melt in with an adjoining one, and one hill to merge with its mate, that they all looked alike to the boys, who, as it developed afterward, kept working their way farther and farther off from their friends.

  43. Dick to Nort as they moved along, the horses climbing up out of the swale in which the mysterious camp was located.

  44. But here, as soon as we ride out of one swale we're in another, and we don't get a sight of Bud or the cattle we set out to haze back.

  45. Well, sir, four miles above Tularosa the wagon road drops off the mesa down to a little swale between a sandstone cliff and Tularosa Creek.

  46. Ken started down into the swale to cross to where George was, when Pepe touched his arm.

  47. When he reached the shade of the bamboo swale it was none too soon for him.

  48. The first bamboo swale was alive with chicalocki.

  49. Ken dragged the deer down into the bamboo swale and skinned out a haunch.

  50. Yes, I remember now that we missed a round dozen head at the time, followed their tracks for several miles, and then they seemed to disappear in the low swale back of Purple Sage Mesa.

  51. He’s heading for that swale near the rocky point; and if he reaches it we’ll have a hard time getting him!

  52. Something ought to be done, because we’re getting closer to that swale all the time; and I say it’d be a shame if the old wolf got clean away through trickery.

  53. He forgot that a dozen good scores had ended abruptly in the swale to the right.

  54. Judge Weatherup drove a perfect ball into the long grass, where successful searches averaged ten minutes, while his voluble companion, with an immense expenditure of force, foozled into the swale to the left, which was both damp and retentive.

  55. The narrow trail had broadened at the summit and there was a swale with a little grass that had escaped the burning rays of the midsummer heat.

  56. The grass was rich, there was plenty of wood, and the swale was deep enough to hide their fire.

  57. The green, tough vines disintegrated reluctantly while the precious minutes sped by; while the unhindered assassins would be hurrying to the point where the entire swale would be visible to them and under their fire.

  58. At its lower end the ghost tree forest began, dense and concealing--but all down the length of the swale the snarevines lay in thick, viciously barbed entanglements, overlying a bed of sharp rocks and boulders.

  59. A group of men were gathered in the swale between the shack and Shanty Town.

  60. Disheartened, dizzy, she left the swale for the shade of the nearest trees.

  61. She had walked as far as the swale that was part way to the Missouri.

  62. She was cutting grass in that same swale across which, a month before, had been tracked the deep-planted, laboured footprints.

  63. He thumped the swale impatiently with the butt of his gun.

  64. Back in the swale again, the scythe was swung less steadily, but with more strength, so that its sharp tip often hacked up the ground.


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