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“The NRF forces are present in all strategic positions across the vale to continue the fight,” the group said in a statement on Twitter.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 6, 2021

It’s the technocratic version of a promise of eternal bliss after we depart this vale of tears.

From The Guardian ● May 26, 2019

Perhaps the show’s most moving photograph records her husband, Larry, turning away as he strides across a grassy field above a shallow vale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2019

And why should the Emerald Isle, so betrayed, not have become this vale of tears?

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 22, 2018

And then all the clouds rolled away, and the white sun shone, and at his command the vale of Gorgoroth became a garden of flowers and trees and brought forth fruit.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Daphne du Maurier set the opening scene of her novel The Glass-Blowers on the terrace of the house, and it is still there much as it was, hidden amid the wooded vales and pastures.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2022

And flow down to the vales and leas;

From Washington Times ● Apr. 16, 2021

I’ve enjoyed the recent rains and the way they green the vales and rinse clean our precious strip malls, a point of pride for so many L.A. residents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2019

Meanwhile, those huge rainfalls on exposed black dirt wash it to the vales even from the flat ground of our neighborhood.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2018

By vales and sharp ravines in Lakedaimon the travellers drove to Menelaos’ mansion, and found him at a double wedding feast for son and daughter.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer