Oh, I don't like this here at all What Running away with our tails between our legs, like so many dogs with stones thrown at 'em It is miserable work, but better than being taken prisoners They rode on down into the coombe, and followed its wanderings with rear and advance guards, though they felt but little fear of pursuit, and for a long time hardly a word was spoken along the ranks.— Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story
Once upon a time in a lonely 'coombe-bottom' of the Downs, where there was neither church, chapel, nor public building of any kind, there lived a cottage-girl who had never seen anything of civilisation.— Round About a Great Estate
One girl who came from a lonely cottage in a distant 'coombe-bottom' of the Downs was observed never to write home or attempt to communicate with her parents.— Round About a Great Estate
The mill was built at the mouth of a coombe on the verge of the Downs; the coombe was narrow and steep, as if nature had begun a cutting with the view of tunnelling through the mass of the hills.— Round About a Great Estate

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