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• Beyond the little streams the path rose again, but soon descended to, and wandered across, a large and beautiful combe which ran down to the sea. —  The Murder of Busy Lizzie - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 46: 1973
• 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 - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 46: 1973
• It presents us with a panorama of misty woods, gleaming water, and glowing heather; a combe-furrowed moorland clothed with scrub oaks and feathery larches. —  Exeter
• Yes; I'd been up to the flagstaff and was walking along by the side of the combe, so as to come back home through the wood path, when there was that great lazy scoundrel, Burge, over from the town with a long staff and a hook, and I was just in time to see him land a good twelve-pound salmon out of the pool--one of that half-dozen that have been lying there this fortnight past waiting for enough water to run up higher Did you speak to him, father Speak to him, sir!" —  Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land
• Mr. T. Dun-combe remarked, that the house had still to learn how the difference between Messrs. Huskisson and Herries had been made up, and how these members continued to sit in the same cabinet. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria

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