clough
Example Sentences
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Ay, there's a many of them down in yon clough.
From The Fortunes of Philippa A School Story by Angela Brazil
In the following exceptions, however, gh is pronounced as f: cough, chough, clough, enough, laugh, rough, slough, tough, trough.
From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Joseph Triemens
In the following exceptions, however, gh are pronounced as f:—cough, chough, clough, enough, laugh, rough, slough, tough, trough.
From Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Anonymous
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
"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