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This story about confirming if a cat was dead has reminded me of a very disconcerting event in Englishcombe near Bath no, not a badger story.

How to confirm if a cat's dead. Glyn Davies 2008

This was followed by a unique gesture and facial expression combe that said, "Am I right?"

Quick Movie Review mike_brendan 2004

Almost opposite the combe was a stack of tall, ragged rocks, part of the island before some natural cataclysm had created the combe and left some indestructible granite in the form of a hazard so dangerous to shipping that a light-ship was anchored half-a-mile to the east of the rocks to warn vessels of their proximity.

The Murder of Busy Lizzie Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1973

Fingle Bridge four winding valleys meet; that is, the combe down which the river sweeps from above curves one way, and the narrow opening into which it disappears twists sharply round in another.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

And there the forest came down the valley -- for it is not enough for me to call a combe -- almost to the rear of the hall and the quickset inclosure around it.

A Thane of Wessex 1884

"combe" -- and at the mouth of this, well sheltered on three sides from the north, the east, and north-eastern winds, stood the homestead.

The Toilers of the Field Richard Jefferies 1867

The second ( "combe," the omission of which from the official French dictionaries Nodier characteristically denounces, is our own "combe" -- a deep valley; from, I suppose, the Celtic Cwm; and pronounced by

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

There are a very few words - brock, for badger being one, combe, meaning a deep valley, and which appears in some English village names and in contemporary Welsh, another, torr, a mountain peak - which seem to have survived, at least among those who speak preciously or somewhat pedantically today.

Excerpt: The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester 2003

a deep little dale with children playing in it -- and this 'I afterwards learned was called a' combe ': delightful memory!

The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911

Lizzie ran for John Fry at once, and we gave him full directions, how he was to slip out of the barley in the confusion of the breakfast, so that none might miss him; and to run back to the black combe bottom, and there he would find the very same pony which Uncle Ben had been tied upon, and there is no faster upon the farm.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004