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The Tule lands are in part the low lands along the greater rivers, but in part they are islands, lying in the delta of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, and separated from each other by deep, narrow "sloughs," or "slews" as they are called branches of these rivers, in fact.
Through rising fog a dragon sandstrewer, travelling at caution, slews heavily down upon him, its huge red headlight winking, its trolley hissing on the wire. THE GONG: Bang Bang Bla Bak Blud Bugg Bloo. Bloom, raising a policeman's whitegloved hand, blunders stifflegged out of the track. THE MOTORMAN: Hey, shitbreeches, are you doing the hat trick? Close shave that but cured the stitch.
Though I heard much of strange lands and far-away ports, he talked mostly of the women who had been in love with him ... slews of them ... "and even yet, sixty-five years old, I can make a good impression when I want to ... I had a girl not yet twenty down in Buenos Ayres. She was crazy about me ... that was only two years ago."
He would begin to discuss my cows, the principles of farming, the sky, the birds of passage, the flowers, the sucking in of the Dutchman which I told him all about before we had gone five miles the mire-holes in the slews, anything at all and rising from a joke or a flighty notion which he earnestly advocated, he would lower his voice and elevate his language and utter a little gem of an oration.
In that length, however, there are innumerable possibilities. Even while he gazes the house bumps on something, slews round, and is caught by the current on the right. Before Ian has time to recover from his agony of alarm, and dip the sculls, it bumps again and slews to the left; a third favouring bump sends it back into the slack water.
"Come on, Gert, don't be a quitter. Don't you want to see her face when she knows that Slews has been all a fluke? Come on, Gert, I'll wake up the kid if I try to dump him in alone." "Well, for just a minute. I I don't want to butt in on your and and her fun."
She had left the occasional groves of oak and poplar and silver birch, and come out on the treeless Great Plains. She had learned to call the slews "pugholes," and to watch for ducks at twilight.
It was called the Ridge Road because it followed the knolls and hog-backs, and thus, as far as might be, kept out of the slews. The last bit of it so far as I know was plowed up in 1877 in the northeastern part of Grundy County. I saw this last mile of the old road on a trip I made to Waterloo, and remember it.
Stern faced and intent upon the road, he slews his big ship into a better bit of road by hauling at the steering wheel. Beside him on the seat the second driver. Ready to their hands the rifles that may save their precious cargo from the marauding German patrol which lies hidden in the thick bush beside the road.
We've slews and slews of places to go to." Cally, who considered that she already had a move on, did her best to get on another one. Young Mrs. Willing added: "Whatever became of the gay young thing with the eyelashes you flirted so outrageously with, the time we were up at Island Inn? What was his name oh Mr. Dalhousie?"
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