wadies

Spwendid sport, don't ye know, and specially wecommended for young wadies wike yourself.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

The plain was striped with these wadies, all shallow and straight and bare, as many and as intricate as the veins in a leaf.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Then we got to the level and found ourselves in a much broken country of ridges, with an intricate net of wadies whose main flow was apparently towards the south-west.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Just before this the Battalion, which had been lent to the 155th Brigade, began its devious march across the exposed Kurd Valley, taking advantage of the winding wadies till it reached the el Sireh ridge and lay up in a nullah running up into Kurd

The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 F. L. Morrison

Farther on we had to turn aside to avoid wadies and khors, up which the Nile had flowed.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

The mountain sides were so steep in some places that we were barely able to climb them; many of the wadies, washed by winter torrents, were next to being impassable; and when our way led along the sides of precipitous slopes I shuddered to think of the consequences of a misstep upon the part of my horse.

My Three Days in Gilead Elmer Ulysses Hoenshel

True, even now, a few narrow valleys, or wadies, show signs of great fertility, but the greater part is quite uninviting.

My Three Days in Gilead Elmer Ulysses Hoenshel

The support companies were removed from the wadies round Hill 230, as it was plain that the Turks had these most accurately registered, and moved up under shelter of the Mansura cliffs, where they were free from direct observation though bothered by 5. 9s neatly dropped just over the edge.

The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 F. L. Morrison

In some places, however, it was rough and full of loose stones, and the sand lay deep and soft in several khors and wadies that had to be crossed.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

Advancing across wadies and scaling knolls upon the desert, the troops were instructed to open fire with ball cartridge.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh