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 John Roby
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
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
"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
"You measure from the clough, I presume, sir?" remarked Potts to Nowell.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
