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
In her restlessness she presently said that she would go out to the ghyll and sit by the water a little.
From Fenwick's Career by Mrs. Humphry Ward
It might have spoiled the verse; and Thor ghyll is beautiful.”
From The Revellers by Louis Tracy
And at the Shanmoor tea Catherine herself had discussed the picnic, offering, in fact, to guide the party to a particular ghyll in High Fell, better known to her than any one else.
From Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Do you remember that night in the ghyll, and all the things we said?
From Fenwick's Career by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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