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Definition of Soughs
1. sough [v] - See also: sough
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soughs
Literary usage of Soughs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Believe me, happiness is shy, Deep, as soughs the boding wind, And comes not ay
when sought, man. A Bottle and Friend, So, sought a Poet, roosted near the ..."
2. The Scottish Minstrel: The Songs of Scotland Subsequent to Burns by Charles Rogers (1882)
"... wi' nae tears tae shed, An' it breathes its cauld breath on the things that
are dead ; An1 it soughs through the trees wi' a ..."
3. General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire: With by Great Britain Board of Agriculture, John Farey (1815)
"It may be right however here to me if ion, that most of these soughs have proved
unprofitable speculations, .owing to the tedious time they were in driving, ..."
4. General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire: With by John Farey (1811)
"Before Steam-engines became common, vast exertions were made in most mining
districts, in the driving of long Levels or soughs, as the only method they had, ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer: And Upon by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Henry Horn, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone (1840)
"... and other soughs, and Sir P. Cell and partners of the other part, and also of
the Cromford and Batet Sough, and the composition ore that might be gotten ..."
6. The Equity Draftsman: Being a Selection of Forms of Pleading in Suits in Equity by Frederick Miles Van Heythuysen, Edward Hughes (1828)
"If yea, Set forth arid describe particularly the nature of such drain or drains
sough or soughs and set forth particularly the direction and course of such ..."
7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1840)
"... and other places where mines were to be benefitted and unwatered by the Cromford
or Bates soughs, for their payment of one-fourth part of all the free ..."
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