bombs

Example Sentences

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Cry over ridges and down tapering coombs, Carry the flying dapple of the clouds Over the grass, over the soft-grained plough, Stroke with ungentle hand the hill's rough hair              Against its usual set.

From Georgian Poetry 1920-22 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir

Their coombs are made some of bones, and others of Wood; they sometimes Wear them as an Ornament stuck upright in their Hair.

From Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World by Cook, James

There are caves with tunnels aft that give on the rough lands and coombs behind.

From The Red Redmaynes by Phillpotts, Eden

The high land had the worst of the winter, but we in the low coombs be gwaine to get the worst o’ the spring—safe as water allus runs down-long.”

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden

He knew all the purple coombs splashed with yellow waves of gorse; sweet with juniper and myrtle, and gleaming with clear and dark-eyed pools that watched the sky.

From The Man Whom the Trees Loved by Blackwood, Algernon