dry-bed

Updated: May 29, 2025

"Just like England!" I thought. And then, as I crossed the little dry-bed stream and came out upon a sandy spit of rising ground: "Z-z-ipp! Ping!" just by my left arm. The bullet struck a ledge of white rock with the now familiar metallic "tink!" I went on moving quickly to get behind a thorn-bush the only cover near at hand. Here, at any rate, I should be out of sight. "Ping!" "Crack ping!"

John Hargrave - At Suvla Bay : Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war.