Ditch for runoff

Usage examples of swale.

The city of Harmony is under direct CoDominium rule, with Governor Swale as its head.

That is clear, but Governor Swale also holds a commission as planetary executive, which in theory subordinates Colonel Harrington to him.

In the past, Governor Swale and Colonel Harrington were agreed that the only way to do that was to extend CoDominium rule to these areas along the river.

Governor Swale received word that the River Pack wishes to reopen negotiations.

Governor Swale was out in the newly taken territory trying to set up a government that would last.

Tomorrow Governor Hugo Swale, Hisself, is coming to pay a visit to the gallant troops of the 501st.

Hugo Swale sat politely, trying not to show any distress as the pipers thundered past him.

As Seeton said, Swale had only a couple of companies of militia with him, yet the siege had been a stalemate.

Governor Swale was too eager to recognize them as a legitimate local government.

I expect Governor Swale will shortly be on his way to a post as First Secretary on a mining asteroid.

In the swale to the left of the road, on a bluff overlooking the river were a deserted dwelling and a shed with a half-collapsed roof.

Beyond the swale was a narrow depression that might have been a stream or runoff channel in wetter years, and that channel led in a circling way around the west side of the semiplateau on which the mine complex stood, getting closer to the walls as it meandered south.

Syskar had clearly paid off, Nylan reflected as they rode back down the gully and up toward the swale where the rest of the squad waited.

Tonsar turned his mount toward the curving swale from where the rest of the squad would attack.

With the muffled impact of slow hoofs on grass and dirt, the squad eased their mounts and the pack animals through the lower swale between the two hills and out onto the flat below the mining camp walls, moving quietly and steadily toward the northwest corner.