clough
Example Sentences
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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 Arnold Bennett
"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
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 Elizabeth von Arnim
"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
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
