clough

Example Sentences

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The road turns off sharply inland at Vitt, a tiny fisher-hamlet we came upon unexpectedly, hidden in a deep clough.

From The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Arnim, Elizabeth von

To the left, in a clough, was an enormous yellow marlpit, with pools of water in its depths, and gangways of planks along them, and a few overturned wheelbarrows lying here and there.

From The Price of Love by Bennett, Arnold

What said I to thee, Goody Dickisson, in the clough yonder, by the hollow trunk of the oak?

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

In the following exceptions, however, gh is pronounced as f: cough, chough, clough, enough, laugh, rough, slough, tough, trough.

From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Triemens, Joseph

"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 Ainsworth, William Harrison