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.

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 measure from the clough, I presume, sir?" remarked Potts to Nowell.

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

"To be sure," replied the magistrate; "but how is this?—This stone seems to me much nearer the clough than it used to be."

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