Ambleside

/ (ˈæmbəlˌsaɪd) /

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noun

a town in NW England, in Cumbria: a tourist centre for the Lake District. Pop: 3064 (2001)

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How to use Ambleside in a sentence

Yesterday morning Mr. Greg called on his way to Paris, to express his regret that he did not see me at Ambleside.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. I (of 3)|George Eliot
Every visitor to Ambleside pays homage to this romantic termination of a delightful walk through a sylvan enclosure.
The Rivers of Great Britain; Rivers of the South and West Coasts|Various
After the early dinner at Ambleside cottage came little bits of neighbourly business, exercise, and so forth.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3)|John Morley
Hence, a romantic and tragic story is told of two skulls which have long haunted an old house near Ambleside.
Strange Pages from Family Papers|T. F. Thiselton Dyer

Our road to Rydal lay through Ambleside, which is certainly a very pretty town, and looks cheerfully in a sunny day.
Passages From the English Notebooks, Volume 1|Nathaniel Hawthorne