clough
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A considerable circuit had to be made before the bottom of the clough could be reached, and then the whole tragedy was revealed.
From A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales by Sir Charles L. (Charles Lawrence) Young
"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 William Harrison Ainsworth
"To be sure," replied the magistrate; "but how is this?—This stone seems to me much nearer the clough than it used to be."
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
The house nestled deep in the clough, upon a shelf of green land, near the moorland stream.
From Th' Barrel Organ by Edwin Waugh
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 Elizabeth von Arnim
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