"Coomb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... first turning, we found the village of Lauterberg. Just at the entrance of the village, two streams come out from two deep and woody coombs, close by each other, meet, and run into a third deep woody coomb opposite; before you a wild hill, which seems the end and barrier of the valley; on the right hand, low hills, now green with corn, and now wooded; and on the left a most majestic hill indeed—the effect of whose simple outline painting could ...
— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull
... brown colour, with black hair, thin black beards, and white teeth, and such as do not disfigure their faces by tattowing, etc., have in general very good features. The Men generally were their Hair long, Coomb'd up, and tied upon the Crown of their Heads; some of the women were it long and loose upon their Shoulders, old women especially; others again were it crop'd short. Their coombs are made some of ...
— Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World • James Cook
... zummer, when the knaps wer bright In cool-air'd evenen's western light, An' hay that had a-dried all day, Did now lie grey, to dewy night; I went, by happy chance, or doom, Vrom Broadwoak Hill, athirt to Coomb, An' met a maid in all her bloom: The feairest maid ...
— Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect • William Barnes
... encamped on the slopes of Priestcliff; or follow the footsteps of a hardy cohort of Rome's picked soldiers, as it moves with steady precision through the High Peak Forest, and ascends the rugged side of Coomb's Moss, to pitch a camp on the spur of ...
— Buxton and its Medicinal Waters • Robert Ottiwell Gifford-Bennet
... barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping ...
— Moments of Vision • Thomas Hardy |
