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Example sentences for "coulie"

Lexicographically close words:
coulee; coulees; couler; couleur; couleurs; coulisses; couloir; couloirs; coulombs; coult
  1. Once our dogs roused a blacktail buck close up out of the brush coulie where the ground was moderately smooth, and after a headlong chase of a mile they ran into him, threw him, and killed him before he could rise.

  2. Back-tracking still farther, they ascertained that the tracks had proceeded to this spot from an eminence at the head of a wooded coulie which commanded the valley where the horses had been found.

  3. Faint and eerie from the muffling mazes of some far-off coulie came again the wolf cry.

  4. When we leave here in the morning we won't untie the rustlers at all, only one fellow, who can accompany us on our ride," pursued the owner of the ranch from which the cattle in the coulie had been stolen and stampeded.

  5. If there's a big coulie near by, take my word for it that's where they are heading for right now.

  6. Finally he saw Adrian beckon the rustler, and head him toward where Billie had the three ponies belonging to the prisoners of Bittersweet Coulie trailing along after him.

  7. All they'd have to do would be to drive them in, and then hang out around the neck of the bottle; for the coulie is so narrow at the mouth it can be closed as easy as anything," was the reply Adrian made.

  8. One of the three men we left at the mouth of the coulie said he'd give something to be on hand when that took place, just to see what happened.

  9. The party crossed the east branch of Birch Coulie and came within sight of Brown’s camp, but the prudent commander did not think it wise to risk his men in a battle.

  10. On the Birch Coulie battlefield Colonel Sibley left in a split stick this writing for Little Crow: “If Little Crow has any proposition to make, let him send a half-breed to me, and he shall be protected in and out of camp.

  11. A coulie is always connected with some sort of hill, isn't it, Ned?

  12. I hope they don't take a notion to slip away up the coulie 'stead of droppin' down and takin' their medicine like men.

  13. Everything seemed to be quiet around the coulie that had been the scene of their spirited engagement with the rustler gang some thirty hours and more previously.

  14. Undoubtedly those who were driving them out of the feeding ground knew that this was the only way by means of which the herd could be started, because further up the coulie merged into a blind canyon that must have proven a trap.

  15. This was after the news was circulated that the rustlers had been in the act of making off with the cattle in Washout Coulie at the time the Double Cross boys arrived on the scene.

  16. They're running down the coulie right now!

  17. No doubt when they had arrived at the bottom of the coulie Chunky would order a short halt, in order to let the ponies get their wind again.

  18. Out from the shadows of the coulie burst a string of cattle on the run.

  19. That dark place ahead must be the coulie opening," Ned suggested.

  20. The firing at Birch Coulie was heard at Fort Ridgely, and a relief was sent, under Colonel McPhail, which was checked by the Indians a few miles before it reached its destination.

  21. After the attack at Birch Coulie and its relief, Little Crow, with a large part of his followers, branched off, and went to the vicinity of Acton, and there attacked the command under Capt.

  22. Birch Coulie is a ravine extending from the upper plateau to the river bottom, nearly opposite the ferry where Captain Marsh's company was ambushed.

  23. When they reached the foot of Birch Coulie they saw the last of Major Brown's command going up the coulie.

  24. The scream of that bane of the cattlemen--the mountain lion--rang out from the coulie again.

  25. There was a deep coulie ahead, with a low range of grass-covered hills beyond.

  26. The patter of ponies' hoofs--a crowd of horses were evidently charging out of a nearby coulie into the open plain.

  27. The cowboys who had dashed out of the coulie saw the possibility of disaster instantly; and they, too, rode in among the bellowing steers.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coulie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.