combes

So they built down in the valleys and in the long low inlets from the sea that were called combes, and as a result one might stand on the high moors looking across country, and never know there was a house within a mile.

Historic Boyhoods Rupert Sargent Holland 1915

a superb drive of about five hours, amid wild gorges, grandiose rocks that have here taken every imaginable form -- rampart, citadel, fortress, tower, all trellised and tasselled with the brightest green; and narrow mountains, valleys, here called "combes" -- delicious little emerald islands shut in by towering heights on every side.

Holidays in Eastern France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877

I think of them as intrinsic to the anciently mild wooded valleys, or combes, of western Britain, and yet their pallor and their music has been forged as much in the coppery earth of the forests of Congo and West Africa.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

November 6, 2008 at 2:06 pm mai kitteh doze nawt nom teh pishours, butt he noms teh tishew payper liek combes in teh gift bags.

who iz this - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Down through warm woods, all fragrant with dying autumn flowers, leaving far above the keen Atlantic breeze, into one of those delicious Western combes, and so past the mill, and the little knot of flower-clad cottages.

Westward Ho! 2007

“Good heavens! how lovely!” exclaimed Caroline when standing on the green ridge where the forest of Montmorency begins, she saw lying at her feet the wide valley with its combes sheltering scattered villages, its horizon of blue hills, its church towers, its meadows and fields, whence a murmur came up, to die on her ear like the swell of the ocean.

A Second Home 2007

“Good heavens! how lovely!” exclaimed Caroline when standing on the green ridge where the forest of Montmorency begins, she saw lying at her feet the wide valley with its combes sheltering scattered villages, its horizon of blue hills, its church towers, its meadows and fields, whence a murmur came up, to die on her ear like the swell of the ocean.

A Second Home 2007

Old Stow House stands, or rather stood, some four miles beyond the Cornish border, on the northern slope of the largest and loveliest of those combes of which I spoke in the last chapter.

Westward Ho! 2007

Its topography is diversified — hill and valley, forest and jungle, grassy combes and bare rocky shoulders, gloomy pockets and hollows, cliffs and precipices, bold promontories and bluffs, sandy beaches, quiet coves and mangrove flats.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

This aftenoone Gabriel came aboord with his skiffe, and then I rewarded him for the good company that he kept with vs ouer the shoales with two small iuory combes, and a steele glasse, with two or three trifles more, for which he was not vngratefull.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003