ghyll
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But then so did the telephone, the railway, internal combustion, photography, laudanum, mirror glass, fire, television, gunpowder, the crossbow, distillation, the slingshot, the bridge high across a foaming ghyll.
From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2016
Do you remember that night in the ghyll, and all the things we said?
From Fenwick's Career by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
Following the upward direction of the animal's nose, the gentleman said, "Whose sheep are those on the ghyll yonder?"
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir
About four o’clock leave your crow’s nest and drop over to Thor ghyll.
From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis
He took the mountain-path which led past the ghyll, up to the ridge which separates Langdale from Grasmere and Easedale.
From Fenwick's Career by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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