21.   At the second stop, overlooking a broad valley, a bear did appear, a solitary giant lumbering across the dry river bed just below.

22.   A team of divers and trained dogs continued a search Tuesday of the river beds and shoreline.

23.   But the old days -- when miners pulled big nuggets out of the river bed -- are gone.

24.   Driver Randy Ross was hit by a shot when bandits began firing without warning as his car came out of a river bed and up on a ridge.

25.   Finding himself deep in the forest, near a dry river bed, Nell looked around.

26.   From the top of a bare dirt hill overlooking a bone-dry river bed, the ravages of war are visible as far as the eye can see.

27.   From the tourist stands and parking lots, a wide wadi, a dry river bed, descends to a wall of solid rock split by a narrow crack.

28.   Gathered from river beds and quarries, the mostly basalt stones are smooth and flat so they do not irritate the skin.

29.   He said the government has taken preventive measures, such as cleaning river beds, to avert problems tied to El Nino.

30.   Moreover, plenty of other communities treat sewage water and then dump it in river beds, where it eventually seeps into aquifers feeding into households.