clough
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
There is seldom any climbing about a genuine clough, because it implies soil rather than rock.
From Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by Smith, W. P. Haskett
What said I to thee, Goody Dickisson, in the clough yonder, by the hollow trunk of the oak?
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John
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
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
"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
