He had in mind a wide reach of swales and flooded meadows, still miles away, wherein he might hope to elude the doom that followed him.
At this point it is like a sea whose deep swales and long, rolling swells have been caught in mid-movement and frozen solid; but further up it is broken up into wildly tossing billows of ice.
The ground was firmer but there were swales full of water.
Sometimes the girls joined us, and we built fires on the edges of the swales and played "gool" and a kind of "shinny" till hunger drove us home.
The stems form readily in large clumps along the foothills and low-lying mesas and swales in sunny exposures, where the plants do best.
No detailed study of the nesting of Dulus has been reported, although Wetmore and Swales (1931) have described carefully the large communal nest of this genus.
There is an additional cause in that poor old Mr. Swales was found dead this morning on our seat, his neck being broken.
I daresay poor old Mr. Swales would have told me that it was because I didn't want to wake up Geordie.
Food for the Wild in the deep swales and low-timbers was scarce and growing scarcer.
Further on the lad hooted like an owl and from the swales the feathered prowlers of the night answered him.
Far down in the dark swales a panther wailed and a loon sent its weird call from the marshlands.
The road was already cut up and at the crossings of the swales the sod on which we relied to bear up our wheels was destroyed by the host of teams that had gone on before me.
The feelings Captain Elihu Swales exhibited towards me did not grow more tender; but hitherto I had kept my temper, and had flown to obey his orders without answering his abuse.
He hinted that Mr Cruden was not as honest as he might be; that he suspected Captain Swales was no better; and that the way the poor emigrants who had come to Liverpool from all parts to go by the ship were treated, was most shameful.
Mr Lefroy, allow me to introduce Captain Swales to you.
On this, immediately Captain Swales cast off his boat, his example being followed by the others; and without attempting to take any of the people out of the ship, he pulled on board the stranger.
You will probably find Captain Swales on board--at all events his first mate; and you may offer your valuable services to them.
For fifteen pounds Captain Swales of the BLACK SWAN agrees to take him and to teach him the rudiments of seamanship on a return voyage to Canada.
Captain Swales and his officers are as nasty as they come.
As soon as I was at liberty, I set to work with Flint to make myself useful; and though I was close to Captain Swales while we were working the pump, he did not observe me.
We did not go down to see the Black Swan, because Captain Swales said she was a long way off, and was not fit to receive visitors, but that she would be in a few days.
Swales and low meadows along the sea-board, from Mass.
I hunted these swales and fished these streams while you were squalling for your pap!
It is your right," said his daughter, quietly; "the Brier Brook swales were yours.
Will you invite me to shoot over Brier Brook swales to-morrow?
Seven young, averaging seven inches in length, left the ground and flew in the opposite direction from that taken by the male and female, to swalesof cotton-grass and willow on the hillside.
The load grew higher, for now that we were in the swales the hay could not be laid out widely.
Thickets and swales of oaks and aspens were gorgeous in their autumn hues.
Eventually we crossed this ridge, or at least the jungle part of it, and got lower down into hollows and swales full of aspens.
In rosy wreaths upon the swales And fallow fields the bindweed trails, And late-sown buckwheat swiftly pales To blossoming anew.
There was an old county family called Swales at Staveley Hall, near Farnham and Scotton.
The two swalesin the front and rear of the house appeared like mill- ponds.
The two swales in the front and rear of the house became great muddy ponds, tawny as the "yellow Tiber," and through intervals of the storm came the sullen roar of the little brook that had been purring like a kitten all summer.
When I came back Mr. Swales went on, "Who brought him home, I wonder, to hap him here?
There is an additional cause in that poor Mr. Swales was found dead this morning on our seat, his neck being broken.
When the first frosts of autumn come the black ash swales are dry, and there is more life in them than in midsummer.
There are still black ash swales and dry beech ridges, but they are not as massive as further south.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swales" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
