"Creek bed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... board and thence to the ground. His horses had plunged, leaped and in a tangle of straining harness tugged this way and that a moment and then with the stage jerking and toppling after them went down over a six-foot bank and into the thicket of willows along the creek bed. With them went Blackie, his face showing ...
— Six Feet Four • Jackson Gregory
... along the creek bed and into the sight of the man who still sat propped against the mossy rock. As Lescott looked up, he closed the case of his watch, and put it back into his ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck
... 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 |
