Besides this, as a man acquainted with the desert, he knew that after a hurricane, rain usually follows and the dried-up "khors" change temporarily into streams.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
There are very few streams, indeed, which have not formed such deposits along some portion of their course.
"Geology"
James Geikie
Leaping streams cut through crystal gorges.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook