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Like Horseley, Ashley, Oakley and a thousand other leas or leys distinguished from each other by some local characteristic.

From Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849 by Various

Mr. Cavendish also observed, that there had been a generation of fixed air in this process, but that it was absorbed by sope leys.

From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph

But even here, amid the combes and the leys, the crags and the quarries, the modern hotel, with its perfect sanitation and imperfect French, is springing up with the rapidity of Badraoulbadour's palace.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel

These oure Petitionis being proponed, the Estate Ecclesiasticall began to storme, and to devise all maner of leys to deface the equitie of our caus.

From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Laing, David

There are quite enough moor leys in England without explaining Morley by Morlaix.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest