clough
Example Sentences
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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
And he made towards the clough, as if with the intention of putting his words into execution.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
It was getting too near dark to go by the moor tops, so I made off towards a cottage in the next clough, where an old quarry-man lived, called "Jone o'Twilter's."
From Th' Barrel Organ by Edwin Waugh
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 W. P. Haskett Smith
