jeel

Example Sentences

• "The pieces of stagnant water may be divided into jeels which contain water throughout the year, and chaongre which dry up in the cold season."
• "On the banks of this jeel the party encamped, about two miles from the village."
• "The reports of some hircarrahs having induced a belief that a short passage might be discovered across the jeels from the Gogra towards Tilyn, Lieut. Fisher, of the Quarter-Master General's department, was despatched to reconnoitre the outlets from that river, accompanied by Lieut. Craigie and five sipahees, in two dingees."
• "There were snipe in countless myriads, and wild geese in flocks that rose from the jeel with a roar like a goods train crossing an iron bridge."
• "And the gel, you know, as freckened as freckened, Because of coorse she navar reckoned But Misthriss Banks could do the jeel ¹ She was braggin she could, and she'd take and kneel On her bended knees, and she'd cuss — the baste ! […] ¹ Damage."
• "An' first an' last upon the flure, an' spinnin' at the wheel, But that strange silence on her still of what had done the jeel."