clough

Example Sentences

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With a feeling of angry disappointment, Richard was about to turn back, when a large black greyhound came from out an adjoining clough, and made towards him.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison

The mud, mingled with stones, many of large size, rolled down a precipitous and rugged clough that descended from it.

From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Leyland, Francis A.

It stands on t'other side o' the lake, on the level wi' a deal o' a'ad trees behint and aside it at the gap o' the clough, under the pike o' Maiden Fells.

From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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

The house nestled deep in the clough, upon a shelf of green land, near the moorland stream.

From Th' Barrel Organ by Waugh, Edwin