In this part of the country the scenery is far more open than it was before; the mountains are lower, but the wadys are not so wide.
We do not get so much information, by the way, out of these people as we might expect; they do not know the names of the wadys and rocks hereabouts, and so pretend they have none.
Possibly in a few years this cluster of wadys may be abandoned to chance Arab visitors, so that the starting-point for the traverse of the Hamadah will be removed farther back, perhaps to Mizdah.
As will be seen, my informant gave me wadys and sheep-walks for towns, in many cases.
The most excellent is that which filleth the pits and pools and which overfloweth into the wadys and the rivers.
Green rings marked the oases, blue threads the wadys where water sometimes runs, and the red lines were the tracks by which loaded camels came from the Soudan.
Kit had noted that the caravan roads and wadys were drawn by a pen.
East of the Wady Sirhan I was struck by the absence of large tributary wadys such as one would expect if the area drained was a wide one.
One approaches it from the plain by a narrow winding valley, reminding one not a little of the wadys of Mount Sinai, where the granite rocks rise abruptly on either hand out of a pure bed of sand.
Inside the defences, the valley broadens out into an amphitheatre formed by the junction of three or four wadys in which there is a village and a palm garden.
There was no road or track at all to-day, and we went forward on the look-out for water which we heard was somewhere on ahead, crossing some very rough ground and wadys which were almost ravines.
The texture of the rock is coarse, and precisely similar to that of Jebel Musa in the Sinaï peninsula, as is the scanty vegetation with which the wadys are clothed.
The wadys are full of hares, but the dogs cannot see them in the high bushes, and this was the only one started in the open.
The Wadys which descend the mountains of Djebal south of Tafyle do not reach the lowest part of the plain in the summer, but are lost in the gravelly soil of the valley.
This day we passed several Wadys of Talh and tamarisk trees intermixed with low shrubs.
It is one of the largest torrents of Haouran, and was at this moment full of water, while most of the other Wadys were nearly dried up.
It is intersected by numerous Wadys of winter torrents, and by three or four valleys watered by rivulets which unite below and flow into the Ghor.
Springs are scarce, and it is from the Wadys that the reservoirs are filled which supply both men and cattle with water, till the return of the rainy season.
In the morning we passed two broad Wadys full of tamarisks and of Talh trees, which have given to them the name of Abou Talhha (Arabic).
It is from the numerous Wadys which rise in the Djebel Haouran that the population of the Haouran derives its means of existence, and the success of its agriculture.
Keires [Arabic], on the Wady Zedi, the largest of all the Wadyswhich descend from the mountain into the plain.
The whole of the country to the right of the road is intersected with deep Wadys and precipices, and is overgrown in many parts with fine woods.
The country is a poor one, arid and burnt up, but it contains wells which never fail, and wadys suitable for the culture of wheat and for the rearing of cattle.
The mimosa is found at the Cape, with the ethel; it is found in all the northern Sahara, and the ethel with it, wherever there is some water, as in the wadys of Fezzan.
We came five hours; our course irregular, but always south-east; the track through wadys filled with the usual trees of the tholukh species.
At the bottom of most of the wadys to-day, water was found at a foot depth, though not a copious supply.
The doom now disappeared, and most of the trees dependent on much water; for here the wadys are all shallow.
We journeyed on southwards five hours, through wadys formed by the force of the waters, gradually approaching the great Hamadah.
It is said still to exist between the Wadys Salmá and Kifáfí.
Awful east winds down these Wadys form the Goz or sand-heaps.
The sandy and stony maritime region, the foot-hills of the Gháts, granites and traps with large veins and outcrops of quartz; and Wadys lined with thick beds of conglomerate.
The rolling sandy plateau and the dwarf Wadysare strewed with trap and quartz, neither of which could have been generated by the new sandstones and the yellow corallines.
The country behind it shows a perspective of high and low hills, lines of dark rock divided from one another by Wadys of the usual exaggerated size.
The Sinaitic peninsula is at intervals swept, like the desert to the east of Egypt, by terrible tempests, which denude its mountains and transform its wadys into so many ephemeral torrents.
On this occasion it was the people of Khonthanûnofir, settled in the wadys east of the Nile, above Semneh, which required a lesson.
Hebron had served as their rallying-point; the broad but scantily watered wadys separating the cultivated lands from the desert, were to them a patrimony, which they shared with the inhabitants of the neighbouring towns.
Only at intervals from clefts in the hills little wadys issue, showing that it sometimes rains in Jebel Shammar.
In the wadys where water had flowed (for it rained here about a month ago), there were bright green bulbous plants with crocus flowers, giving a false look of fertility.
These two wadys make a width of at least the third of a mile.
The wadys and ravines are not far apart, and are frequently quite deep.
This table-land is traversed here and there by deep wadys and narrow ravines, most of which have a general westwardly, direction, and empty their waters into the Jordan and Dead Sea.
Aheer is the Saharan region of senna, where there are large wadys covered with its crops.
These wadys are almost always dry, except one or two months in the winter.
The Assyrians must have set out by the Wady Haurân or by one of the wadys near to Babylon, and have returned by a more southern wady.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wadys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
