How To Use Wadi In A Sentence

It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
Some taxonomic groups are particularly species rich in a global context: any impact of climate warming on such species, for example, willows (Salix spp.), sawflies, stoneflies, wading birds, and salmonid fish, is likely to affect their diversity at the global level. Arctic environments north of the treeline
Wadi Turabah in Saudi Arabia is the last place in the Arabian Peninsula where the hammerkop (Scopus umbretta) can be found nesting, and the isolated and distinctive endemic race Pica pica ssp. asirensis is pressent on Shalla ad-Dhana. Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands
Spend six months wading through the Byzantine regulations and rules that radio stations must comply with to keep their licences.
Old guys spend more time sitting up late after the family's asleep, and in these hours your old guy will plan and replan his upcoming expedition, put new laces on his wading shoes, tie flies, dress in all his Arctic gear in order to see what it's like to move around in, call another insomniac old guy and check out up-to-the-minute river conditions, and so on. The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

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It's a day where people celebrate by drinking the worst-tasting beer they can find, wearing ratty blue singlet tops with Australian flags as a cape, eating burnt "snags" from the "barbie" and listening to the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown on the radio from the plush confines of a deck chair placed in a kiddie's wading pool. A List For Australia Day
Don't bother wading through those crowded pages with their ancient typesets and such. Nick Mamatas' Journal
No safe wading in an unknown water.
She hitched her skirt up before wading across the stream.
While the major parties, and there are three, the Bharatiya janta party, the congress and the Janata dal - s are wooing thevoters with promise of sev eral goodies, the Bahujan samaj party and the samajwadi party, whose roots are in uttar pradesh are doint something else. Coalition shades
After wading around in difficult seas of theory and producing some charming and intriguing drawings, he made his name with the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
Those ten minutes translated into distance as half a mile of wading through six inch deep troughs of muddy water, half a mile of sliding and tripping over loose rocks and embedded stones.
All the other competitors were paired up in boats, while I struggled against a howling head wind, wading the brackish water from the bank.
Wadiyar also pointed out that additional changes will be made once the legal dispute is settled.
The pictures show a female gorilla grabbing a branch to gauge the depth of a pool of water before wading across it.
Today's the day for refuse collection where I live, and the miasma of smells and stench from the bins was like wading through a marsh this morning.
Employers are busy people and wading through hundreds of CVs is a time-consuming process.
This is a great month to enjoy light-tackle action, while wet wading along the open beachfront.
Interested in wading into the next generation OPAC waters? Implementing a Next Gen OPAC - audio conference
I have been wading through this homework assignment for three hours.
It's a big project then, one that would bring back good numbers of those wading birds. Times, Sunday Times
She used to go catching butterflies and wading through streams. Times, Sunday Times
I've been wading through less spam lately thanks to a tip I got.
Christian joined his son on the steep bank of the wadi. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
Spwendid sport, don't ye know, and specially wecommended for young wadies wike yourself. The Sky Writer
In the 16th Century, Raja Wadiyar defeated the viceroy of the Vijayanagar empire, wrested the famed golden throne from him and established the sovereignty of the Mysore kings with Srirangapatna as the capital.
The next morning, while wading a long stretch of the river, I begin to sink in sand.
In the lower mountain areas, wadi species include Zizyphus spina-christi, Prosopis cineraria, Acacia tortilis and some fig species, especially Ficus salicifolia. Al Hajar Al Gharbi montane woodlands
At one point as I was wading through gravy, gristle and fat that was masquerading as lamb cutlets, I thought I found a prime piece of meat.
In this area, ducks, wading birds, and shorebirds are awaiting your visit.
A jack snipe, a rare wading bird, has been seen.
Thatched African huts are built on the hillside above the wadi.
Then, just metres away, lands one of the most entertaining of wading birds, the starling-sized sanderling. Country diary: Holme Dunes, Norfolk
I sat under a lemon tree with two of my oldest and dearest friends while the kids paddled in the wading pool and drove plastic cars around the yard.
Rahen had occasion to order by name a young monk called Colman to do something which involved his wading into a river. Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore
It teemed rain from once we set foot on the trail, the underfoot conditions were such that it was like wading through a soft riverbed, it was blowing a gale in the valleys and a hurricane up top.
Two years ago, the buzz in Lucknow and elsewhere in the state was the overriding desire and concern to get rid of Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and his goonda raj. Mayawati Magic
At length we proceeded up the bed of a small river, Maumoo, which runs into the Booree Dihing close to the village: after wading along in the waters for two hours we arrived at a khet where we encamped. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
A neighbor of mine, a toddler, had diarrhea due to giardia infection, and one of the antecedent events was the swallowing of several gulps of stagnant water squeezed from a bath toy in an outdoor wading pool.
This is a wholesome look at what two citified and sissified urban brattlings can learn about a hard day's working wading through cow flops.
According to the Saudi daily newspaper Al-Watan, troubles for the woman, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, began last year when a member of the religious police entered her house in the city of Al-Chamli and found her with two unrelated men, "Fahd" and "Hadian. Bent Corner
In recent weeks, the purposely inflammatory demagogy of PBS's newest host has included a description of John Edwards as "specializing in Jacuzzi cases," owing to the lawyer's successful representation of a small child who saw her intestines sucked out inside a wading pool. August 2004
They looked totally smitten wading through the sludge. The Sun
By this, I have always meant as at "Qumran" -- the name scholars give to the subject of "the Dead Sea Scrolls" to avoid repeating this tedious phraseology -- it being the location of the River Wadi emptying into the Dead Sea where the Scrolls were found what the documents themselves say and not the more imprecise conclusions of paleography, archaeology or even AMS carbon dating, such as these may be. Robert Eisenman: The James Ossuary: Is It Authentic? (An Update)
She used to go catching butterflies and wading through streams. Times, Sunday Times
A large brownish wading bird(Aramus guarauna) of warm, swampy regions of the New World, having long legs, a drooping bill, and a distinctive wailing call.
The Swadini Reptile Park, with about 300 animal species, including a variety of snakes, lizards, leguaan, tortoises, turtles, and frogs, is a popular destination for touring school and research groups. ANC Daily News Briefing
As a PhD student in politics and international relations I am wading through security related analysis every day.
If, after wading through the details above, you still want go through with it, you will need someone to officiate.
I recognise that there is a fair bit of information to be absorbed there, but it is quite a lot like wading through sand dunes.
This Delhi cricketer can so easily make a difference in a key game, wading into the bowling with effortless ease.
Within 45 minutes some of the campers were wading through water that was knee-high as they struggled to leave the site, adjacent to the Greta and Derwent rivers.
She hitched her skirt up before wading across the stream.
The fisherman begins wading over to me as I rebait and cast out. Stockies
Or are we stuck wading through this - the most uncreative kind of marketing - for the rest of our lives?
If you're wading the flats, shuffle your feet - then if any rays are around they will pick up the vibrations and move away.
It is no safe wading in unknown water.
If your childhood was like mine, it was marked by days spent tromping aimlessly in the mud, wading in creeks, and building forts in the forest.
After wading through the shallow molasses of the agnostic gospel slop, I was in need of a true church catharsis.
He obviously missed the description of wading through cow muck to get to the feed-sheds in the dead of winter!
The burden of wading through up to 1000 e-mails on their return frequently had the effect of immediately negating the positive effects of their annual break.
At one point, he was searching for coins buried in a small wading pool filled with birdfeed to see if he could win a prize. The Marietta Times
It is an important wintering ground for European migratory birds such as the white stork, the lesser kestrel, the Eurasian golden oriole, the Eurasian cuckoo and other wading birds.
So whether you're scampering up side canyons looking for hidden waterfalls, wading coastal waters in search of quahogs, or portaging an unrunnable section of river, the five water shoes below will perform swimmingly.
Do you enjoy wading through dense thickets of symbolism?
You can also rent a kayak or canoe and explore the estuary; bring binoculars to spot wading egrets and resident ducks.
No safe wading in an unknown water.
Wearing felt-bottomed Orvis Henry's Fork wading shoes, I felt just a bit more stable, but balancing over these oversize ball-bearings was pretty athletic stuff.
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
NEW DELHI - Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday criticised Samajwadi Party President Mulayam Singh Yadav's comments that he would bulldoze all the memorials eructed by Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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
Both Wadi Sikait and Regal Ridge classify as Type I emerald deposits, where Be-bearing quartz or pegmatite veins from a granitic pluton intruded Cr- or V-bearing mafic or ultramafic rocks.
Rudely puffed the winds of heaven; roguishly clomb up the all-destructive urchin; and, lo! in a moment night re-established her void empire, and the cit groped along the wall, suppered but bedless, occult from guidance, and sorrily wading in the kennels. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
This ought to be a simple enough question but wading through Railtrack's Financial Reports I am left none the wiser.
Did they say it's shallow as a wading pool, or shallow as an open grave?
Al Deir is encircled by the rounded bluffs and ridges of a range which plunges 1500 metres to Wadi Araba, a valley linking the Dead Sea to the Red Sea.
When wading the flats, you don't walk but shuffle your feet.
Every ebb leaves a sandy flat, extending half a mile seaward from the town; the reefy anchorage is difficult of entrance after sunset, and the coralline bottom renders wading painful. First footsteps in East Africa
When restrained from going up high slides or wading into ponds she becomes hysterical. Times, Sunday Times
Scroll through a long document in a DOS word processor, then compare that to wading through a Word for Windows file.
While most of the Bedouin tribesman of the Wadi Rum area have now given up a nomadic lifestyle, camels are still valuable currency in a country not enriched by oil.
The rest of her statement was like wading through gobbledegook. Times, Sunday Times
Like many gulls, the Mew Gull uses a variety of foraging techniques, obtaining food while walking, wading, swimming, or flying.
An anganwadi worker at Dornapal on condition of anonymity admitted that there were cases of prostitution in the camp, and it appears at least 50 cases of termination of pregnancy of women SPOs had been reported at Beejapur. Archive 2006-11-01
When it's hot, wading a smallie river with a few friends, not worrying about cost or putting meat in the cooler, is perhaps the most enjoyable day I can think of. The Finest Summer Fishing?
Almost without exception, people were less than impressed by the way the ‘upgrade’ turned their channel-changing experience into something akin to wading through deep mud in gumboots.
In 2010, the Association for Crisis Assistance and Development Co-operation (WADI), a German-Iraqi human rights nongovernmental organization, published the results of a study conducted between September 2007 and May 2008 in the provinces of Arbil and Sulaimaniya, and the Germian/Kirkuk region. Human Rights Watch: Iraqi Kurdistan: Girls and Women Suffer the Consequences of Female Genital Mutilation
There was a herd of elk wading from the island where they spent the night to a National Wildlife Area. 200 yards away. Hey guys i woke up at 3:00 today and had to get firewood and saw a really nice 8 pointer.
Yes | No | Report from prairieghost wrote 51 weeks 17 hours ago i'd stay away from neoprene, too hot. most of the manufacturers are producing good, breathable waders these days. you didn't indicate whether you wanted a stocking foot to use with wading boots (which i strongly recommend) or a lug boot-footed wader. I want to buy my first set of chest waders. I just looked at a pair from L.L.Bean. $399, no thanks, not for my first pair.
Heavy feet pounded on the packed dirt and a moment later Michael was wading into the fray.
The limpkin, a rare wading bird with a dagger beak, stalks the edges of the Little River and park lake. Ajc.com - News
To Peter's astonishment a familiar figure was wading ashore, a red and white lifebelt about his waist.
I stumbled aft and saw Harry wading in from the river, struggling through the hard laminar flow at his legs. THE HUNDREDTH MAN
Neighboring villages are living with fear and terror, especially the minority lower castes dalit to dared to demand the right of land were slaughtered in order to give other dalit in villages of Mowadi taluka of bhandara district . Archive 2006-11-01
Then Sainsbury's and Tesco said they were wading into cheap telecoms, too.
He, of course, was wading the Tweed in February, without waders.
When the tide is out the sand flats are busy with a variety of wading birds.
Most of the water is ideal for wading and one could reach long distances but with care, as there were some sharp drops into deep holes in the center of the river.
Part of the filming involved him wading through a river strapped to a parachute. The Sun
It's a magnet for wading birds. Times, Sunday Times
There were children building sandcastles and surfers wading out into the water carrying their surf boards under their arms.
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
Andre is a fighter I've chosen as Wadie successor. Carlos And Zuckerberg: The Men, Myths, Movies
Suggesting to your attractive female friend that "wet wading is the way to go" even though the air temp is 56-degrees, and it's runoff ... both naughty and nice. Naughty and Nice: A Flyfisher's Checklist
As far as she knew, he didn't even glance shorewards, but when he had had enough he came wading out, water dripping from him as he ran his hands over his wet head. Barefoot Bride
All baseline workers, including "anganwadi" workers, village "panchayats" and other such opportunities where programs can benefit from synergizing, have to be part of the national tobacco control campaign. Tobacco cessation can piggy-back ride on health services
Approaching it from this side you pass through a dense bryanthus-fringed grove of mountain hemlock, catching glimpses now and then of the colossal dome towering to an immense height above the dark evergreens; and when at last you have made your way across woods, wading through azalea and ledum thickets, you step abruptly out of the tree shadows and mossy leafy softness upon a bare porphyry pavement, and behold the dome unveiled in all its grandeur. The Yosemite National Park
Wading in a pool of brackish water, a man pans for rubies, sapphires and other gems using a basket at one of Sri Lanka's many pit mines.
No safe wading in an unknown water.
It had been dubbed the boneyard by local surfers after the storm because of a tendency to sustain cuts and bruises when wading through, said Lynn Yates, Surfside Local Surfers Alliance president. The Facts: News
Wading usually is easy over a gravel bottom of predictable depth and flow, with ample room for backcasts.
I drifted off like a vagrant, wading through the afternoon stillness, the dust powdering my shoes. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
Some people make sport of wading the Waddenzee at low tide wearing big rubber boots.
He was incredibly strong, so we would walk day and night in the jungle, climbing hills and wading through rivers. Times, Sunday Times
Featuring polypropylene felt soles tapped to accept Chota's casehardened steel cleats, each pair of shoes comes with 28 cleats, which are easily installed or removed-depending on wading conditions-with a 1/4 inch nut driver. Chota STL Plus wading shoes
Traditional dry fly fishing while wading is thought to be done upstream ... The Answer Line is Open...
I set off with my ubiquitous armed guards into the Hawlwadig district near the city's Bakara market.
It is an important wintering ground for European migratory birds such as the white stork, the lesser kestrel, the Eurasian golden oriole, the Eurasian cuckoo and other wading birds.
A gaggle of Catholic nuns from Kerala, in full habits, delicately dipped their feet like pale blue wading birds.
Employers are busy people and wading through hundreds of CVs is a time-consuming process.
If more designers took this truth to heart and acted on it, maybe the quality of visual communication would improve and our daily experience of the media would feel less like wading through… bovine ordure.
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
The Saharan winds were blowing sand onto fertile hillsides, and when it rained the water was cutting gullies through the rich alluvial soil along the wadi.
He was incredibly strong, so we would walk day and night in the jungle, climbing hills and wading through rivers. Times, Sunday Times
The park's administrators dumped its once-impressive wading pool for a sorry bunch of hoses that spray pathetically from time to time.
As an advocate for those held without charge or trial by an occupation rooted in illegality, and under the increasing scrutiny of a world skeptical of U.S. intentions in Iraq, Amal Swadi is a person of interest indeed. Think Progress » More trouble for Halliburton.
Squish, squash, bubble; squash, squish, guggle; and your feet as though you had been wading through slaughter to a throne. Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman
Many show astrological figures: Aquarius wading through water, Mercury standing among clouds, Venus in a chariot drawn by swans.
U.S. researcher Peter Frederick captured 160 young white ibises – a coastal wading bird – and gave them food laced with methylmercury.
For dynamics, Wadi relies on dbx 160X and 900 compressors.
The Henrys Fork Wading shoes are made for just this sort of job, with a thick synthetic felt sole that grips.
A few of them looked up at this lone upright figure, wading through the masses, but they didn't pay him much heed.
Trying to accomplish anything here was like wading through glue.
He went on, wading through, thrashing about in this confused sea of pain. THE GOLDEN LION
Most fishing is done from drift boats, because fluctuating water levels can make wading dangerous.
Bottom line: I could tell no difference in traction between the two while wading. Feel It In Your Sole
In the evening, if you stand on the Roman bridge, you can watch men wading the torpid cressy river, carrying pans.
She hitched her skirt up before wading across the stream.
The rivers never have seen a dam, and the fish never have seen a hatchery, and the angler wading a remote gravel bar stands in the company of bears and eagles and wolves.
Al Deir is encircled by the rounded bluffs and ridges of a range which plunges 1500 metres to Wadi Araba, a valley linking the Dead Sea to the Red Sea.
You might make it through if you kept wading, betweentimes. Stork Naked
Morrissey has once again courted controversy by wading into the US presidential election battle.
There was a steep rise in the number of wandering lunatics following the Erwadi tragedy.
But wading out into the crystal water, I had to remind myself that only 50m away was the largest accessible shipwreck in the world of recreational diving.
It is at least another day's drive to el Geneina, if the road is not cut by wadis carrying rainwater from the massif of Jebel Marra.
When we got to the Reyes compound in Tlachichuca, it was almost 9 pm and we were grimy from a day spent wading through Mexico's rural bus system. Mexico mountaineering expedition on Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltepetl)
And I have no interest at all in wading through his 400-plus comments about how worthless and corrupt all American reporters are. Off the record
Inspired by National Geographic wildlife filmmaker stories from the field, the 30 and 45 second brand spots recreate these extraordinary moments from narrowly escaping a treacherous fall while filming on a remote mountain cliff to wading through leech-infested waters in search of howler monkeys. Nat Geo Wild Reveals New Brand Campaign *Updated* « Art & Business of Motion
Don't try wading the flats like the locals do on your first trip.
The rose and carnation buds cultivated in the hill state are in great demand in most north Indian cities round the year," state horticulture department assistant floriculturist B.S. February 8th, 2010 more images more imagesNEW DELHI - His career as a politician may have taken an unexpected turn with his expulsion from the S.majwadi Party, but Amar S.ngh says he has a lot on his plate right now, including a couple of movies. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
They climbed past the neighborhood into a nameless gulch, huffing and wheezing through the sagebrush in their weight-tortured Reeboks, wading through prairie star, peppergrass, sunflower, the gossamery spores of plants kicked free and floating. The Shell Collector : Stories
Flotsam gives shelter to sandflies and other food for the small flocks of wading birds that kept wheeling in like a single organism, landing or taking off on the instant in perfect unison: sandlings, ringed plover, gadwall and dunlin. Wildwood
It's a big project then, one that would bring back good numbers of those wading birds. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes I would walk for days in the woods, checking snares, tracking deer, wading the river, just walking.
There are now enormous numbers of wading birds in Britain along our muddy shores. Times, Sunday Times
I agree - I felt like I was in the Slough of Despond wading through some of the battle passages and pages and pages of description. Iconoclasm
As the photographer corbeau du nord points out in their notes on this photos Flickr homepage, cows wading in streams may seem quaint but in fact are nasty polluting machines. Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites
The man had been wading in a river known for its bountiful fish supply.
All travellers attest the luxuriant verdure of those extensive wadies; and that they were equally or still more rich in pasture anciently, is confirmed by the numerous flocks of the Amalekites, as well as of Nabal, which were fed in the wilderness of Paran (1Sa 15: 9). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Then there was a tremendous splash as the dog's fully-clad owner jumped into the pond and began wading through hip-deep water, clouting the fleeing swan with a stick.
The park is known for its rich bird life, so focus on large wading birds, such as the roseate spoonbill, woodstork, great blue heron and a variety of egrets.
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
Today's the day for refuse collection where I live, and the miasma of smells and stench from the bins was like wading through a marsh this morning.
He first got hooked on fish as a boy wading the streams of Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
It's a peculiar feeling, wading through hundreds of old photographs and loading them into photo galleries.
The olives and myrtles with Nerium oleander which is common, grow at the bottom of wadis or beside gueltas. Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, Algeria
The dampness amplified each and every smell to such a pitch that he seemed to be wading through air thick with intoxicating fragrances.
A distant sweep of pink sand marks the course of a seasonal river, Wadi Kutum.
He's in a flat in an expensive part of town - and wading through a load of worthless old tat. Times, Sunday Times
These elements define various clustering parameters controlling how the underlying WADI's components are wired and set-up upon application deployment.
But then his trousers were always rolled up at the knee, for the convenience of wading on the slightest notice; and his virtue, supposing it to exist, was undeniably virtue in rags, which, on the authority even of bilious philosophers, who think all well-dressed merit overpaid, is notoriously likely to remain unrecognized (perhaps because it is seen so seldom). VI. The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming. Book I—Boy and Girl
Balboa, in discovering the Pacific, did so according to the Spanish custom of discovery, viz., by wading into it with his naked sword in one hand and the banner of Castile, sometimes called Castile's hope (see Comic History of the United States
Knowing the ford well, and that it is shallow, with a firm bottom, they ride boldly on; their followers straggled out behind, these innocent of the foul conspiracy being hatched so near; still keeping up their rollicky mirth, and flinging about _jeux d'esprit_ as the spray drops are tossed from the fetlocks of their wading horses. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
December 9th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Over 80 'anganwadi' workers Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
So whether you're scampering up side canyons looking for hidden waterfalls, wading coastal waters in search of quahogs, or portaging an unrunnable section of river, the water shoes below will perform swimmingly.
When the tide is out a huge expanse of mud is left exposed on this flat landscape, giving the perfect opportunity for wading birds such as sanderling to feast themselves on the variety of marine invertebrates that call this mud home. BBC Blog Network
It's no wonder we haven't enough on the beat if they are having to spend time and energy wading through this nonsense. The Sun
It was lovely just sitting in the sunshine, watching other people wading about in the water.
It's the largest wading bird in North America, standing up to five feet tall with a wingspan of almost eight feet.
With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam's grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels. Walden~ Chapter 10 (historical)
F — and I were over the hedge and wading through the flax swamp before we saw that our game was bagged; indeed, we did not know he was dead, and approached him with the greatest caution, for a wounded boar is about the most dangerous animal to attack. A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
The actions have left Kiely's senior team wading through paperwork.
A sea-bred boy would not have stayed a day on Earraid; which is only what they call a tidal islet, and except in the bottom of the neaps, can be entered and left twice in every twenty-four hours, either dry-shod, or at the most by wading. Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
For the following hour, we pursued this occupation with silent intensity, the quiet of the room broken only by the dry, crepitant rustle of the turning pages, and the occasional muttered complaint from my companion, who periodically avowed that he would “sooner be wrassling a passel of wildcats than wading through all this infernal writing.” Nevermore
Be sure to eliminate mosquito-breeding areas around your home by removing standing water from gutters, old tires, wading pools, tarps, potted plants, and other outside buckets and pails.
To Peter's astonishment a familiar figure was wading ashore, a red and white lifebelt about his waist.
It can seem on prime summer days that only a handful of Texas' half-million coastal anglers are not wading the bays or surf.
The cities and towns of the Kingdom are located on or near side wadis that used to have perennial flow emerging from springs.
There were children building sandcastles and surfers wading out into the water carrying their surf boards under their arms.
Wading usually is easy over a gravel bottom of predictable depth and flow, with ample room for backcasts.
Spwendid sport, don't ye know, and specially wecommended for young wadies wike yourself. The Sky Writer
The picture below left shows police wading in after trouble following the Liverpool match.
An anganwadi worker from one of the camps visited, told a team member that she and all other Angawanwadi teachers were brought to the camp directly from a block level meeting and were not given an opportunity to go home to collect their belongings. Archive 2006-11-01
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
The Weib river has become a dusty wadi for the first time in living memory.
This particular playground was a grass-covered space of over 8000 square meters, and included a zoo, a wading pool, a botanical garden, slides, seesaws, sandboxes, and a sumo wrestling ring.
She hitched her skirt up before wading across the stream.
Large wading and diving birds seemed to be everywhere: great white egrets, great blue herons, green herons, tricolored herons, roseate spoonbills, anhingas, cormorants, and jacanas.
The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe.
Once or twice there appeared a little "purl" on the surface, near the line of the floats, and Ossaroo fancied he had made a "take" of it; but, on wading in and examining the net, not a fin could be found, and he had to wade out again with empty hands. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains

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