combe

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He was about to lead the way up the south side of the combe when suddenly a rabbit shouldered him roughly aside, pushed past Fiver and was gone into the open.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Then he said, “I not see other rabbits, sir, but a my brother ’e say yellowhammer say is a new rabbits, plenty, plenty rabbits, come to combe over on a morning side.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Still talking quietly, he led Pipkin out into the overgrown combe.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

“No, that’s away up by Efrafa. Down here it runs in a sort of combe of its own. Can’t you smell it?”

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

To the west again was a shallow, dry downland combe, perhaps four hundred yards across and overgrown with weeds and rough, yellowing summer tussocks.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams