"Creek bed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dived for the lane into the mesquite and cactus. From here they raked the creek bed, and cleared it. That was better. They had good view of the hill and prairie, too. They fought cunningly. The Indians could locate them only by the powder smoke from the gun muzzles; but the instant that they fired, the Texans squirmed aside for six or eight feet, and the answering ...
— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin
... said, and then there was a long silence. "Well, Tupper's a good fellow," he remarked philosophically. "But Lucy," he said, starting up nervously as the sound of horses' feet came up from the creek bed, "you'll—you'll do all the ...
— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge
... will take the plunge of thirty feet into the creek bed," he says; "and when it lies in splinters at the bottom you ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... says he was a little chap when he died, but he says he remembers men making a great coroboree over him when he died, and they could find nothing. They always thought he had money, and he showed them one or two small lumps of gold, and what he said was gold-dust washed out from the creek bed.' ...
— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood
... a day to get our load to the top of the Twelve-Mile summit, a rise of about one thousand three hundred feet from the creek bed as the aneroid gave it. In the steeper pitches we had to take the axe and cut steps, so hard and smooth does the incessant wind at these heights beat the snow, and on our second trip to the top we were just in ...
— Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled - A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska • Hudson Stuck |
