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
They had reached a point of the high moor which overlooked Thor ghyll.
From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis
Then they went up the ravine with the loud ghyll boiling into foam at one side of them.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
He had come down the side of the ghyll, and had entered the house from behind.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
All her relatives rode hard after them and came up with them in this ghyll.
From The Long Portage by Bindloss, Harold
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