clough
Example Sentences
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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
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 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"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
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
