"Swale" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to suit you? What's the matter with the Elkhart swale, Atwater marsh, and the woods around ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... abundant water at this season of the year. He knows well that not until they had crept up to and cautiously peered over that ridge, without showing so much as a feather of their war-bonnets, would they venture so boldly down into the "swale." He knows well that both in front and rear they are watching for the coming of cavalry, and that now they are dashing over to the Platte to peer across the skirting bluffs until satisfied no foeman is near, then to scurry down into the bottom to search for hoof-prints. ...
— 'Laramie;' - or, The Queen of Bedlam. • Charles King
... Homebury St. Mary. So Bessie Lonsdale said to herself when she woke in her old-fashioned chintz-curtained room. The sun shone in at the windows, the air was balmy and sweet, and lifting herself on her elbow, she saw in a little round swale in the garden outside a faint showing of green nestled into ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various |
