lough

• On coming nearer to the noble bay or lough, on the banks of which the country-seat of my unknown friends was to be found, the aspect of things changed as if by magic. —  The Lieutenant and Commander
• The DoE have admitted to the BBC that although they were advised by the Water Council in October 2003 to buy the lough, they have still made no approach to the earl or his estate 18 months later. [my emphasis] —  Slugger O'Toole
• That evening he drove home his three goats, three cows, three horses, and three asses, and the milk of the cows had to be turned into a valley where it made a lough three miles long, three miles broad, and three miles deep, and that lough has been filled with salmon and white trout ever since. —  Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
• He has planted a great many oak trees, and elm trees round his lough: And a good warrent he had, it is kind father for him, I stayd with him a week. —  The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
• He informed me also that the whole district around the lough, together with all its islands, belonged to Colonel L a relation of the Duke of Wellington; and that this gentleman, as landlord, had leased the ferry of the island to certain persons who had contracted to pay him L260 a year; and to make up this sum, and obtain a suitable income for themselves, the ferrymen charged each pilgrim five pence. —  The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three

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