clough

Example Sentences

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The mud, mingled with stones, many of large size, rolled down a precipitous and rugged clough that descended from it.

From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Leyland, Francis A.

Passing along the upper end of the clough we looked straight down its one shingly street to the sea washing among rocks.

From The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Arnim, Elizabeth von

To the left, in a clough, was an enormous yellow marlpit, with pools of water in its depths, and gangways of planks along them, and a few overturned wheelbarrows lying here and there.

From The Price of Love by Bennett, Arnold

The road turns off sharply inland at Vitt, a tiny fisher-hamlet we came upon unexpectedly, hidden in a deep clough.

From The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Arnim, Elizabeth von

"You are quite sure the hut is behind the clough; and the rindle, which, being interpreted from your base vernacular, I believe means a gutter, in front of it?"

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison