If you care to ride down to the vley I will show her to you; it won't take us much more than a mile out of our way, and I should like Nell to have her.
Kafirs had been concealed in the bush beside the vley the preceding night.
May had collected the whole party together at a great vley some two miles off, and then finding that Piet would not be foremost in the van, had moved to the front as guide.
She had fainted, and Gray had left her to procure some water to moisten her parched lips, and was hastening at full speed from a vley in the hollow to tell his miserable tale to the white men.
Brabies, as has been stated, usually contained water once, at least, during each season, but the othervley sometimes remained dry for years at a stretch.
No vleywas found to contain more than a single variety.
In the low, stone ledges surrounding the vley were to be seen grooves evidently caused by the sharpening of weapons.
Usually, we had been told, at least one heavy thunderstorm broke over Brabies early in each season, and then the vley held water for about three weeks.
On a trip undertaken during the previous year I had found an Apus of another species in a vley less than thirty miles from Brabies,--a vley which probably does not contain water more than once in five years.
This vley was several hundred yards in circumference.
In the vicinity of the Brabies vley the sand was rather firmer than in most other parts of the desert; consequently cities of the desert mice abounded.
At Brabies it was that we had decided to pitch our hunting camp, for we heard good reports as to the water in the vley there.
Yes,--the Brabies vley must have existed under approximately similar conditions from an immensely remote antiquity.
So far as I had been able to ascertain, Brabies and one other, but nameless, vley were the only places in the whole enormous northern section of the desert where water ever lay on the surface.
The water of the vley was rapidly drying up under the fierce heat; in another week there would not be a drop left.
And we were assured of the almost incredible fact that Kat Vley contained water.
Each morning when the sun first grew hot, the vley was invaded by countless myriads of desert grouse.
Then these are blown hither and thither among the dust of the desert until another adventitious shower fills the vley in which they were generated, and some chance wind-gust carries a few of them into the water.
In one minute her comrades crossed the vley a little below me, and made toward the rhinoceros.
An old lioness, who seemed to take the lead, had detected me, and, with her head high and her eyes fixed full upon me she was coming slowly round the corner of the littlevley to cultivate further my acquaintance!
I say, Charlie," called out Hans, "there must be a lion in the vley there.
Up the middle of the vley stalked a troop of ten colossal giraffes, flanked by two large herds of blue wildebeests and zebras, with an advanced guard of pallahs.
The farmer who bought Spielman's Vley of my stepfather is an Englishman, an emigrant from a Berkshire village.
But it will be no use for you to go to Spielman's Vley to find her.
Yes, sir, or we shall not reach Koodoo's Vley to-night.
Spielman's Vleyand Rylands were two of these, and here he placed men whose views accorded with his own.
We had a broiling climb of it; on gaining the top, a vast green plain was again before us, and after some miles further we camped near a large vley of thick muddy water.
Finding the first vleydried up, we had a twelve miles' march before breakfast.
On reaching the timber at the point where the vley was, or should have been, they found this too dried up, as all the others.
Indeed, as they soon after came to know, it was rather a fortunate circumstance their finding the vley dried up.
Besides, their guide knew of another vley some miles farther on, where he had still better hopes of finding water--now their greatest want.
Up the middle of this vley stalked a troop of ten colossal giraffes, flanked by two large herds of blue wildebeests and zebras, with an advance guard of pallahs.
In one minute her comrades crossed the vley a little below me, and made towards the rhinoceros.
An old lioness, who seemed to take the lead, had detected me, and, with her head high and her eyes fixed full upon me, she was coming slowly round the corner of the little vley to cultivate further my acquaintance!
He knew what they were, and had often seen a drove of them-- perhaps the same one--approach the vley and drink.
Every evening, therefore, the quaggas had drunk at the vley and gone off again, without exciting the slightest interest.
Without halting, he headed in the direction of the vley already mentioned; and kept on towards it, his object evidently being to reach the water.
At some distance off it was wooded, but nearer the vley a grassy plain lay spread before the eye like a green meadow.
Should the animals arrive upon the ground before the pit was covered in and all traces of the work removed, they would make off without entering the water, and perhaps never visit that vley again.
We went to look," writes Selous, "and five minutes later found a long shallow vley full of water.
Old Jacob, one of his Kafirs, now said there was a small vley close at hand.
He knew what they were, and had often seen a drove of them--perhaps the same one--approach the vley and drink.
At some distance off it was wooded, but near the vley a grassy plain lay spread before the eye like a green meadow.
Left alone in her room, Esme crossed to the open window and stood looking out upon the wild bit of garden with its kei-apple hedge and the small vley quite close to the window.
Indignant and angry, she walked as far as thevley and seated herself in the shade of the trees with a book, which she did not read, open on her lap.
This incident had occurred only a few nights before I met Engelbreght at thevley in question.
After a very hot and weary tramp, we at last reached the vley where our guides had hoped to be able to show us water.
I moved the column to the edge of a wide vley to the right of the road, and formed the horses in quarter-column under cover of the slope.
Colonel White then led the advance for a mile across the vley without casualty, but on reaching the opposite rise near the Oceanic Mine, was subjected to a very heavy long-range fire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vley" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
