Lexicographical Neighbors of Cleughs
Literary usage of Cleughs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Caledonia: Or, A Historical and Topographical Account of North Britain, from by George Chalmers (1889)
"From those vales, however, shoot out many cleughs and hopes, that run up a
considerable distance between the heights (r), and each of those vales sends out ..."
2. The Upper Ward of Lanarkshire Described and Delineated by George Vere Irving (1864)
"cleughs (280-1151) farm is of a little greater value than that of North-bottom,
and lies in the hollows or cleughs of the hill between the Douglas-rig, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1860)
"... and rowans that are gey and plenty in the cleughs. and some young larch
plantations, I can hardly say that you will find muckle standing timber. ..."
4. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry by Raymond Dexter Havens (1922)
"... one that seems to me to catch something of the dewy freshness of the Scottish
wilds: With earliest spring, while yet in mountain cleughs Lingers the ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Saxon tons, hams, cleughs (clefts or ravines) and various patronymics are met
with in great numbers; and the Gaelic knock (hill) and Cymric caer, ..."
6. The Mercersburg Review by Marshall College (Mercersburg, Pa.). Alumni Association, Alumni Association, Pa.) Marshall College (Mercersburg (1851)
"... idiom the scenes of Theocritus would no longer be laid in Sicily but in Scotland.
Polyphemus would appear entirely out of place amid the cleughs and ..."
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