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"Washout" Quotes from Famous Books

... little crick t'other side of town got rampageous late in the afternoon, and the whole crowd that had watched Clover Crick all day went pellmellin' off to see new sights, leavin' me entirely alone by the washout. I remember what you said about pretendin' to commit yourself to your Maker there in an agreement between you as cashier an' Tank Shirley, an' the place ...

— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter

... just about the time I'd doze off a little, I'd seem to hear that voice. I went to the depot this morning, and caught the eight o'clock train out. I'd 'a' made it in here at two this afternoon if it hadn't been for a washout between here and the junction that put the trains on this branch out ...

— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden

... been raining steadily for several days and the mud was hub deep, while in many places the road was under water. Once he was obliged to get out, and by the flickering light of his lantern, to pick his way around a dangerous washout. Several times he was on the point of giving up and turning back, but thoughts of Whitley's anger drove him on, and he at last reached the place, several minutes after the train had passed on its way across the dark prairie. As he stopped at the corner, Whitley appeared by the side of the buggy, ...

— That Printer of Udell's • Harold Bell Wright

... night of the 13th. Here we were bountifully supplied with rations and given railroad transportation. Everything had now changed. Richmond and all the principal towns were swarming with Federal troops. We remained in Richmond two days on account of a washout, and did not reach home until the 20th ...

— The Southern Soldier Boy - A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy • James Carson Elliott

... been passing gangs of workmen on the track. And at that last yell the Virginian rose. "I reckon I'll join the meeting again," he said. "This filling and repairing looks like the washout might have been true." ...

— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister

Words linked to "Washout" : channel, flop, soil erosion, rain-wash, nonstarter, colloquialism, unsuccessful person, failure, wash out, groove, loser