clough
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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 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 Francis A. Leyland
"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
"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 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
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