"Creek bed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... 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
... they were storm bound, venturing out only to feed the dogs and from time to time to relieve the tarp roof of its burden of snow. The third day dawned cold and clear, and daylight found the outfit on the move. They were following a creek bed, and the depth of the snow, together with the easing of the slope, permitted the use of both teams. No halt was made at noon and when they camped at dark they estimated they had made fifteen miles. Five days of fair cold weather followed and each ...
— Connie Morgan in the Fur Country • James B. Hendryx
... Snowy Gulch go up Poor Man Creek through Spruce Pass over to Yuga River. Go down Yuga River past first rapids along still place to first creek you'll know it cause there's an old cabin just below and my canoe landing. Half mile up, in creek bed, is the pocket and new cabin. And don't tell no one in Snowy Gulch who you are and where you going. Go quick brother Ez and put up a stone for me at ...
— The Sky Line of Spruce • Edison Marshall |
