"Coombe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fire in the grate, The far train, the slow echo in the coombe, The ear that hears fire, train and echo ...
— Poems New and Old • John Freeman
... is believed to have suggested the character of Lady Maclaughlan to Miss Ferrier, and there is little doubt she was the original. She was the widow of Earl Ferrel's, of Tyburn notoriety, and was burnt to death at Coombe ...
— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
... say the same for you," Lady Roscoe retorted unabashed. "The obvious, in this case—though you can't or won't see it—is that the boy is thoroughly spoilt, and in September he ought to go to school. You couldn't do better than Coombe Friars." ...
— Far to Seek - A Romance of England and India • Maud Diver
... 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
... the prospect an old man driving a peat cart came from the direction in which I was going. I asked him the name of the ravine and he told me it was Ceunant Coomb or hollow-dingle coomb. I asked the name of the brook, and he told me that it was called the brook of the hollow-dingle coomb, adding that it ran under Pont Newydd, though where that was I knew not. Whilst he was talking with me ...
— Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow |
