ghyll
Britishnoun
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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
Light, scantily nourished trees, sycamore or mountain-ash, climbed the green sides of the ghyll, and framed the woman's form.
From Fenwick's Career by Mrs. Humphry Ward
So they ran also after their master, and all three fell to climbing the side of the ghyll.
From The Sundering Flood by May Morris
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 Sir Hall Caine
About four o’clock leave your crow’s nest and drop over to Thor ghyll.
From The Revellers by Louis Tracy
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