"Nullah" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was now in full swing, and their path lay across a deep nullah (ravine) through which mighty volumes of drainage water were finding their way to the Ganges. On reaching a bamboo foot-bridge which spanned it, Ramzan ordered his wife to go first. Ere she reached the opposite bank, he gave ...
— Tales of Bengal • S. B. Banerjea
... bound to admit also that tiger-hunting is not quite all it is cracked up to be. In my fancy I had pictured the gallant and bloodthirsty beast rushing out upon us full pelt from some grass-grown nullah at the first sniff of our presence, and fiercely attacking both men and elephants. Instead of that, I will confess the whole truth: frightened as at least one of us was of the tiger, the tiger was still more desperately frightened of his ...
— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen
... wonderful cockney humorist, who possessed the truth on all points. As far as Fusilier Bluff was concerned, said he, the attack was an effort to reach and destroy the terrible whizz-bang gun. It was believed that the gun's location was in a nullah where its dump of ammunition was inaccessible to our artillery. Only bombers could reach it. So they were going to blow up a mine of 570 pounds of ammonel, and the bombers, supported by the infantry, were going to rush for the ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond
... if taken from the mother very young. I have reared several, but only kept one for any length of time. I have given a full description of Zalim and his ways in 'Seonee.' He was found by my camp followers with another in a nullah, and brought to me. The other cub died, but Zalim lived to grow up into a very fine tiger, and was sent to England. I never allowed him to taste raw flesh. He had a little cooked meat every day, ...
— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale
... which abounded among the ghauts, and once beheld two tigers crossing a nullah. They had, however, other matters to think of, and neither the flesh nor the skins of the bears would have been of any use to them. The work was severe, and they were glad when at last they reached ...
— The Tiger of Mysore - A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib • G. A. Henty
... hills—everywhere we looked for them. If a flock of vultures circled above a distant spot we went over at once in the hope of surprising a lion at his kill. Every reed bed was promptly investigated, every dry nullah was explored. McMillan's farm, which is a farm only in name, was scoured without ever a sign or a hint that a lion lurked thereabouts. Mr. McMillan has four lions in a cage, but they snarled so savagely that we hastened ...
— In Africa - Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country • John T. McCutcheon
... mile, just as they were crossing a stream. After that we had some level marching into the village of Rahman, and by this time the snow was only lying in patches. Here we made a short halt. From Rahman there is a path across the hills to Chitral, by means of a nullah called the Goland Gol, of which mention will be made hereafter but at this time of year it was impossible to use this ...
— With Kelly to Chitral • William George Laurence Beynon
... say it's more exciting than fox-hunting, but that's childish; I never heard a man assert it whose liver was not on the wane. It's more dangerous, certainly. A header into the Smite or the Whissendine is nothing to a fall backward into a nullah, with a beaten horse on ...
— Sword and Gown - A Novel • George A. Lawrence
... hard at the Jebel el-Fahst, the great discovery of the northern journey. I had been struck by the name of the watercourse to the north of the hauteville, Wady Majr Sayl Jebel el-Mar—"the Nullah of the Divide of the Torrent (that pours) from the Mountain of Quartz." Moreover, a Makna'wi lad, 'Id bin Mohsin, had brought in fine specimens of the Negro or iridescent variety, offering to show the place. Lastly, other Bedawi had contributed ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... Southern cart-road. I saw your helmet when you came up from the nullah by the temple—just enough to be sure that you were all ...
— The Kipling Reader - Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling • Rudyard Kipling |
