clough

Example Sentences

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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

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 Young, Charles L. (Charles Lawrence), Sir

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

"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

And at nightfall, when the driven Bolts of heaven Smite the rock and break the bluff, Thither troop the elves whose home is Where the foam is, And the echo and the clough.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry