Thesaurus / watercourse
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Captain Trevithick has an interest in the mine of Coralillo; the great watercourse is also his.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKPassing the flanking line of mesas, Bill pushed his way up a watercourse between two foothills.
MYSTERY RANCHARTHUR CHAPMANIn vain was all this overthrow and waste by the roadside, in vain their loss in river, pool, and watercourse.
THE ONTARIO READERS: THE HIGH SCHOOL READER, 1886MINISTRY OF EDUCATIONIt was a sort of dry watercourse, although if the rain kept on at this rate it would soon be a devilish wet one.
A FRONTIER MYSTERYBERTRAM MITFORDBelow, on the bank of a small watercourse, was a large bit of enclosed and cultivated land, and beside this a fruit orchard.
THE LUCK OF GERARD RIDGELEYBERTRAM MITFORDLong windows opened out on to a lawn stretching down to the watercourse which fed the millwheel.
HYACINTHGEORGE A. BIRMINGHAMWe sat together, upon a day, in the shade of a ravine far from the barracks, where a watercourse used to run in rainy weather.
SOLDIER STORIESRUDYARD KIPLINGNear where he stood a fissure rent the wall of rock—a watercourse half filled with earth and shale and grown up with low shrubs.
THE ISLAND OF ENCHANTMENTJUSTUS MILES FORMANThere is hardly a creek, pond, or watercourse, without one or more families having an abode upon its banks.
THE HUNTERS' FEASTMAYNE REIDThey advanced cautiously along the dry watercourse until it made an abrupt turn toward the west.
WHITE OTTERELMER RUSSELL GREGORWORDS RELATED TO WATERCOURSE
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