Nullahs

These were his weapons -- rough spears, throwing-sticks, and clubs called nullahs, or waddys. ❋ Frank Fox (1917)

Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta demanded adequate measures for cleaning and de-silting of sewerage nullahs in Jammu City before onset of summer and rainy season ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was ages behind that when nullahs were nowhere, in county ❋ Unknown (2006)

The quantity of vegetation has prevented the country from becoming furrowed by many rivulets or “nullahs”. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And they permitted the senior to approach Rashleigh, who, upon his part, had been long expecting to receive the coup de grace among them, deeming it highly probable, amid the furious contention which had so long prevailed, that somebody, enraged at a repulse, might end the dispute by dashing out his brains with one of the clubs or nullah nullahs that were brandished so angrily upon all sides. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The banks were brimful, and broad nullahs were full of water, and the fields were inundated, and still the rain came surging down in a shower, that warned us of what we might expect during our transit of the sea-coast region. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)

For two marches of eight hours each we plunged through slush, mire, deep sloughs, water up to our necks, and muddy cataclysms, swam across nullahs, waded across gullies, and near sunset of the second day arrived on the banks of the Makata River. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)

The soil, thin sand overlying humus, suggested rich crops of ground-nuts; its surface was everywhere cut by nullahs, now dry, and by brooks, running crystal streams; these, when deep, are crossed by tree-trunks, the Brazilian “pingela.” ❋ Unknown (2003)

The path plunged westward into the bush, spanned a dirty and grass-grown plantation of bananas, dived under thorn tunnels and arches of bush, and crossed six nullahs, Neropotamoi, then dry, but full of water on our return. ❋ Unknown (2003)

After heavy rains it is still worse, the surface of the land is changed, and paths become lines of dark puddles; the nullahs, before dry, roll muddy, dark-brown streams, and their mouths streak the sea with froth and scum. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Below them, the roads, intersected by “nullahs,” a sort of instantaneous torrent, were soon rendered impracticable, entangled as they were, besides, with thorny thickets and gigantic lianas, or creeping vines. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The land on each side of it was steeper and more rugged, and the gorges and nullahs were crudely gouged from the harsh earth. ❋ Smith, Wilbur, 1933- (1993)

They climbed up through the gorges and the dry nullahs, scratching and digging in every likely spot, chipping fragments off the exposed reefs of quartz and schist, crushing these to powder, and washing away the dross in a shallow clay dish, hoping always to see the gleaming precious tail remaining in the bottom of the dish. ❋ Smith, Wilbur, 1933- (1993)

Even the wiry brush plants in the gorges and nullahs, that had seemed seared and dried as mummies of men dead a thousand years, were now decked in fresh robes of green, with wreaths of yellow blooms crowning their ancient blasted heads. ❋ Smith, Wilbur, 1933- (1993)

He lay flat to his beast's neck, talking to it when he wasn't squealing with excitement, his long hair flying as he took the jumps over the little dry nullahs that crossed our course. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)

"Cameliers," advancing from the south, were obliged to travel over tracks which would have given a mountain goat the horrors, across wadis and nullahs so steep that the horses had to be let down by ropes and hauled up the other side, while the "Cameliers" had to build their roads as they went along, a camel being rather an inconvenient beast on which to scale the slippery sides of a cliff. ❋ Antony Bluett (N/A)

We had, of course, no fences to leap, but there were deep nullahs and irrigation dykes wide enough to give one something to think about. ❋ Antony Bluett (N/A)

Indeed the only real opening in the whole chain of defences was between that place and Sheria, the Turks no doubt trusting to the exceptionally difficult country, which hereabouts was a maze of small wadis and nullahs, to prevent any attempt at a break through. ❋ Antony Bluett (N/A)

One of these nullahs was a fearsome place: half-way down the descent the path had a twist in it and at the angle of the turn was a gigantic boulder almost blocking the way. ❋ Antony Bluett (N/A)

Besides the rough country there were deep, narrow nullahs to be crossed, some of them with sides as steep as the roof of a house. ❋ Antony Bluett (N/A)