Ghyll

The gill (or "ghyll," as the poet writes it), from which the lonely family that dwelt there took their name, was not upon the bridle-road from Scargate Hall toward Middleton, nor even within eye or reach of any road at all; but overlooked by kites alone, and tracked with thoroughfare of nothing but the mountain streamlet. ❋ Unknown (1862)

Out in the field, the fox, streaming across the ghyll, a blur of red. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You can choose an ascent or a descent, but either way you're guaranteed to get a few gobfuls of ghyll water. ❋ Dale Berning (2010)

Black Force and The Spout are two such sights when in spate, only visible after negotiating a ghyll on the old Westmorland-Yorkshire border as rifted as the Rishi Ganga Gorge in northern India. ❋ Tony Greenbank (2010)

For in that garth was neither knight nor squire nor sergeant; no spear-head glittered from the wall, no gleam of helm showed from the war-swales; no porter was at the gate; the drawbridge over the deep ghyll was down, the portcullis was up, and the great door cast wide open. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The gill (or “ghyll,” as the poet writes it), from which the lonely family that dwelt there took their name, was not upon the bridle-road from Scargate Hall toward Middleton, nor even within eye or reach of any road at all; but overlooked by kites alone, and tracked with thoroughfare of nothing but the mountain streamlet. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

The very spirit of the moorland, lake, brook, tarn, ghyll, and ridge breathes from his prose poetry: and well it might. ❋ Various (N/A)

Nearly at the end of the second run White found himself on the edge of a narrow, deep ghyll, with a stream at the bottom, crossed by an overgrown footpath which went down to the stream and up again by flights of stone steps opposite each other. ❋ Eric Parker (1912)

No living creature, great or small, lived in that ghyll. ❋ William Canton (1909)

Perhaps it was the stillness or the scent of the firs that climbed the hollow of the ghyll behind the house that reminded Ida of the man who had strolled with her through the shadow of the giant redwoods of the Pacific Slope. ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)

All her relatives rode hard after them and came up with them in this ghyll. ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)

"Then we go nearly straight down, keeping this side of the big ghyll." ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)

The two men had walked some distance, and reached the turning of a lane which led to a house that could be seen among the trees at the foot of a ghyll. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

Nay, give me a dark ghyll in Iceland, with a river racing down its length, and the sea never far off. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

It stood at the foot of a ghyll, which, when swollen by rain, was majestic in volume and sound. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

There was one gap in the furze at the mouth of a tributary ghyll. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

See, there they are -- there beyond the ghyll on the mere side of yon big bowder. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

Following the upward direction of the animal's nose, the gentleman said, "Whose sheep are those on the ghyll yonder?" ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

"Mr. Bonnithorne, I must put thee off, or maybe I'll lose fifty head of sheep down in the ghyll." ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

At that angle there stands a little group of cottages deliciously cool in their white-wash, nestling together under the heavy purple crag from which the waters of a ghyll fall into a deep basin that reaches to their walls. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)