vale
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"Though I walk through death's dark vale, yet will I fear none ill."
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2022
“The NRF forces are present in all strategic positions across the vale to continue the fight,” the group said in a statement on Twitter.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 6, 2021
And why should the Emerald Isle, so betrayed, not have become this vale of tears?
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 22, 2018
“Playing chess is a vale of tears,” he said during one of our training sessions as we examined an especially egregious, error-riddled game I had played.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 14, 2016
The path, still wide enough for men and vehicles and horses, tho I only see men, curves its way down thru more orchards on the hillsides of the little vale.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
His forge sits tucked away in one of the beacons' hidden vales, only a few miles from the cowshed where he made that bold promise all those years ago.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
The glory that now haloes the vineyard valleys of Sonoma and Santa Ynez, Alexander and Edna, the Russian River, and other dales and vales, once belonged to Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
Centuries of small-scale farming have resulted in it being carved up into tiny plots separated by hills, rocky outcrops and vales.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2019
Meanwhile, those huge rainfalls on exposed black dirt wash it to the vales even from the flat ground of our neighborhood.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2018
Her husband is with Sonia, listening to their youngest recite poetry in that beautiful lilting voice of hers: "I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high o'er vales and hills..."
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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The Fellowship of the Ring
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