Dungeon Ghyll in Great Langdale is a deep chasm or fissure in the southern face of the first great buttress of the Pikes.
On the black dungeon's brink not a moment he stay'd; O'er the black roaring Ghyllglided softly the Shade.
Quoth the carle: "It is down in this ghyll that my master promised to abide me.
And therewith he began to go down the side of a ghyll well bushed and treed, and somewhat steep, and Osberne followed him.
Hounds were on the line of a travelling otter, and had they hit off the drag in the ghyll at five or six o'clock instead of nine, they could easily have carried it over the watershed, and down a runner which enters a tarn in the next valley.
The season was not advanced enough--the rugged pathway by the Tongue Ghyll would be as slippery as glass--no pony could get up there in such weather.
This round by the Langdale Pikes and Dungeon Ghyll was one of their best days; or, at least, Molly and her brother thought so; for to those two the presence of Lesbia and her chaperon was always a restraint.
Clyne and his party came in about half-past seven; and as it chanced that the Stock Ghyll troop arrived at the same minute, the whole house turned out to meet the two, and learn their news.
Two parties, the Troutbeck contingent with which was Captain Clyne, and the riders who had chosen Stock Ghyll valley and the Kirkstone, were still out at seven; and as the others had met with no success, their return was eagerly awaited.
In her restlessness she presently said that she would go out to the ghyll and sit by the water a little.
Sometimes when it's been raining I think I can hear the Dungeon Ghyll stream, though it's more than a mile away.
It represented a young woman seated on the edge of a Westmoreland ghyllor ravine.
The harsh spring wind came rioting up the valley, to fling itself on the broad sides of the pikes; the lambs made a sad bleating; the water murmured in the ghyll beyond the house; the very sunshine was clear and cold.
Meanwhile, as in their farewell talk beside the ghyll eight months before, her mood gradually and insensibly changed.
Madame de Pastourelles obeyed her, murmuring that she had sent her carriage on to the Dungeon Ghyll Hôtel, whence it would return for her in an hour.
In a sudden agony, she walked back to the window in her own room, looking this time, not towards Elterwater and the post, but towards Dungeon Ghyll and the wild upper valley.
There is a terraced garden in front, and a stream comes frothing out of a wooded ghyll at the foot of it.
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.
When he passed Mr. Bonnithorne in the hall at the Ghyll he was on his way to the cottage of the Laird Fisher.
The Ghyll was early astir, and in every nook and corner full of the buzz of gossip.
It's very likely she'll come to the Ghyll with her husband, Reuben.
Following the upward direction of the animal's nose, the gentleman said, "Whose sheep are those on the ghyll yonder?
Since his father's death he has allowed the Ghyll to go to wreck.
Then she told him what happened at the Ghyll on Monday night.
By the time that Paul had got to the Ghyll his anxiety had reached the point of anguish.
Two days later the fell behind the Ghyllwas a scene of unusual animation.
What, woman, thoo's surely heard what happen't at the Ghyllthis morning?
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.
She contended that the man who now stood seized of the Ghyll was not her husband, Paul Ritson, but Paul Drayton, an innkeeper of Hendon, who bore him a strange personal resemblance, and personated him.
Tell me," said Hugh, "what passed at the Ghyllon Monday night?
The sun was high over the head of Hindscarth, but a fresh breeze was blowing from the north, and the walk to the Ghyll was bracing.
Now, it's theGhyll itself, I see, house and buildings.
Catherine noticed them at once when she got back from High Ghyll about eight o'clock, and wondered first of all what was the matter; and then, with more emphasis, why the trouble was not immediately communicated to her.
Then in the evening Mrs. Thornburgh had asked of him, with a manner of admirable indifference, whether he felt inclined for an evening walk to High Ghyll to inquire after Mary Backhouse.
And at the Shanmoor tea Catherine herself had discussed the picnic, offering, in fact, to guide the party to a particular ghyll in High Fell, better known to her than anyone else.
Poll Ghyll is the family bone of contention at present.
There is the slope of the hillside, black against the night sky, and among the trees I see the glimmer of a light beckoning me as the lonely lamp in Greenhead Ghyll used to beckon Wordsworth's Michael.
We then ascended a near hill to the waterfall called Dungeon-Ghyll Force, also a subject touched by Wordsworth's Muse.
Then in the evening Mrs. Thornburgh had asked of him with a manner of admirable indifference whether he felt inclined for an evening walk to High Ghyll to inquire after Mary Backhouse.
And at the Shanmoor tea Catherine herself had discussed the picnic, offering, in fact, to guide the party to a particular ghyll in High Fell, better known to her than any one else.
The Stock-Ghyll is a favorite resort for newly-married couples and is certainly romantic enough for the purpose.
From here we traversed back into the ghyll and got underneath the great overhanging block.
On the great precipice of Scawfell, Moss ghyll is the most easterly of the three gullies which look towards the Pikes.
The first three or four hundred feet are by no means easy, and are thoroughly typical of ghyll climbing.
We therefore next attacked the ghyll from the bottom, hoping that we should be able to discover a way where others had failed.
A few days later, Moss ghyll was again climbed by a party led by J.
When we attacked it, this ghyll had not been climbed, although several parties had been up a considerable distance.
We had already carefully prospected the upper part of the ghyll from above, finding that there was no difficulty once this obstacle was passed.
We then climbed out of the ghyll on the left up some slabs of rock.
Those are the spurs Mad Harry rode Hellfire on a wager down Crosbie Ghyll with, and broke his neck doing it, besides his young wife's heart.
Stone-Arthur is the name of the hill, on the east side of the Vale of Grasmere, opposite Helm Crag, and between Green Head Ghyll and Tongue Ghyll.
We walked up Green-head ghyllin search of a sheepfold.
Then they went up the ravine with the loud ghyll boiling into foam at one side of them.
See, there they are--there beyond the ghyll on the mere side of yon big bowder.
Willy Ray had been coming and going most of the night from the kitchen to his own room--a little carpeted closet of a bedroom that went out from the first landing on the stairs, and looked up to the ghyllat the back.
It had sparkled among the icicles that hung in Styx Ghyll as he passed, and the ravine had been hard to cross.
Come with me: the ghyll is shady, Carpeted with flowers; Why miss these sweet hours?
Here you see the ruin at the end (or rather bend) of the Ghyll high above your head, the sides of the ravine rising steeply to its walls.
A footpath which passes through the farmyard of Black Hall runs alongside this ghyll and joins the Duddon Valley with the Whitehaven Road.
Bleatarn ghyll was beneath him, but there was another hollow and it is hard to walk straight down hill in the dark.
There's nea ither lad in aw t' dale could ha' browt Herdwicks doon Bleatarn ghyll last neet.
The ghyll is a rough climb in daylight, and summer tourists, trying to cross the fells, often turn back at the bottom.
Sheep will follow a leader and the flock was straggling down the ghyllbehind the lambs.
Bare trees rose in shadowy masses across the dark stretch of lawn; the ghyll beyond it was filled with mist, out of which there rose the gurgle of running water.
Ambleside, though it has no immediate lake view, is not without its water effects, both heard and seen when the swollen little tributary gives power to Stock Ghyll Force, a very respectable fall of some seventy feet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ghyll" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
