As he was almost never permitted to go on shore, even though the vessel lay in port for months, his time at the best hung heavy; and everybody was permitted to lend him books, if they were not published in America and made no allusion to it.
Whether they really knew nothing about it, or whether it was a "Non mi ricordo," determined on as a piece of policy, I do not know.
I asked him the name of the ravine and he told me it was Ceunant Coomb or hollow-dingle coomb.
From a man whom I met I learned that the bridge was called Pont Coomb Linau, and that the name of the village I had passed was Linau.
The little stream wound through a fair coomb between orchards, meadows, wastes of fern and heather.
Below the house a gate opened into the farmyard, and Uncle Chirgwin's land chiefly sloped away into the coomb behind, though certain fields upon the opposite side of the highroad also pertained to him.
Thunder growled a bass to the shriek of coming winds and a flash of distant lightning bridged the head of the coomb with a crooked snake of fire.
But at Buryas Bridge she remembered that her uncle was in thecoomb with the farm hands, and might be there all night.
But the orchard lands of the coomb below were fair, and many primroses twinkled in the soaking green of the tall hedge-banks.
Not until the middle of March came a thaw, and then unchained waters and melted snows roared and tumbled from the hills through every coomb and valley.
Go to," said Mumble; "we all know John Coomb and his usances well enough without your confession.
He found their canvas pitched in a coomb under high sheepwalks, and Wigan Joe made him as welcome as ever.
In a shelteredcoomb they saw an encampment of white tents bleaching in the sun.
As the coomb opened, the squire went along a hedge near but not quite to the top.
Years ago thecoomb had been quarried for chalk, and the pits were only partly concealed by the bushes: the yellow spikes of wild mignonette flourished on the very hedge, and even half way down the precipices.
The entrance of "Crow's Nest" opened upon the highroad which took the police back to Dartmouth, and here Brendon delayed the car and descended alone down the coomb to the house that had so suddenly lost its master.
Behind the house opened a narrow coomb and descended a road to the dwelling.
No matter how charming the place, (and there is a little stream in a hollow where Wimbledon Common flows into Coomb Wood that is pleasant in the memory,) I knew that those other boys saw something I did not see.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coomb" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
