Sentence examples for creeks past from inspiring English sources

AFTER hours of tromping through the hills of Napa County, beneath towering redwoods, over mountain creeks, past ruins of 19th-century homesteads, there still wasn't a single grape to be seen.

By squaring away this latest locked-room conundrum so quickly, Renwick might even be signposting a conscious break from Creeks past.

North of Cave Junction, US 199 leaves the Illinois River, which curves west towards the ocean, and follows several small creeks past Selma to Hayes Hill Summit (elevation about 1700 feet/500 m).

That water flows by almost everyone's house in much of upstate: the Schoharie and Mohawk and other rivers and creeks flow past corn fields and cows, under willows and near old farmhouses and new ranch houses, restaurants, plant nurseries, bars, hardware stores, car repair garages.

The path slopes down toward Deadman Gulch, where a trickling creek runs past old-growth stumps and new, looming redwoods, their ropy reddish bark distinguishing them from Douglas firs.

On the scenic three-mile Rosebud trail, which circles a small hill called Little Mesa and travels down by an extension of the creek past the clay shooting ranges, we surprised a doe and her two fawns.

The highway heads southeast, partly along the latter creek, past Keddie to Quincy in the American Valley.

"That second part could involve anyone who contributed pollution to the creek in the past," Mr. Hernan said.

The more Mr. Waxman discovers about the creek's hidden past, the more he has become an advocate for its survival.

When I started 40 years ago, if your bus service was up the creek at half past nine you'd spend the rest of the morning putting it right so it would be OK in the evening – you don't get that luxury now.

We raced past swollen creeks and stretches of forest, restored barns and rambling horse farms, fearful that we might miss the sheep parade.