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Example sentences for "the valley"

  • The King was with De Aquila in the Grand Stand above Welansford down in the valley yonder.

  • I was for the Lower Mill in the valley, to note the aspect of the Heavens.

  • The sun flashed on Little Lindens' windows, and the cloudless sky grew stiller and hotter in the valley.

  • Sir Richard pointed to the swells of beautiful, dappled Dallington, that showed like a woodcock's breast up the valley.

  • One side of the valley is formed by cliffs and terraces of porphyry as red as the reddest new brick, and at sunset blazing into vermilion.

  • Here's sixpence for you, on condition that you don't again come within twenty yards of my heels, all the way up the valley.

  • And he strode away up the valley, under a broiling sun and amid the deathlike silence of early afternoon.

  • They had come to a bank breast-high, and over it the valley was no longer to be seen.

  • Knight having arrived over the hills to Castle Boterel upon the top of a crazy omnibus, preferred to walk the remaining two miles up the valley, leaving his luggage to be brought on.

  • The spinning-wheel is silent in the valley: family feelings are at an end.

  • The reports made to parliament rival the novelist and the poet: The inhabitants of Glensheil, in the neighborhood of the valley of Dundee, were formerly distinguished from all their neighbors by the superiority of their physical qualities.

  • Like the traveller who by oblique windings rises from the depth of the valley to the mountain-top, it follows intrepidly its zigzag road, and marches to its goal with confident step, without repentance and without pause.

  • The only refuge they had now was the stock of cattle they had in the valley by the cave, and some little corn which grew there, and the plantation of the three Englishmen.

  • In front was the fall of the cliffs and the vast but cloudy vision of the valley.

  • But this time he did not fall into a little meadow just beneath; he fell a thousand feet below, to become a wreck of bones in the valley.

  • Caballero, did you never hear of the valley of the Batuecas?

  • At the bottom of the valley we entered a small village, washed by the brook, which had now swelled almost to a stream.

  • The most frequented and busy parts of the city are those comprised within the valley to the north of this elevation.

  • Near the bottom of the valley it took a turn to the left, bestriding the road with one of its arches.

  • He took money instead of guest-quarters from the country north of the valley district, and from Hedemark; and then returned to Raumarike, and so west to Hadaland.

  • Then Eystein fled north up the valley, and sent his relation Halvard Skalk to King Halfdan to beg for peace.

  • This was the Roman Gobannium, a small fort guarding the road along the valley of the Usk and ensuring quiet among the hill tribes.

  • It lies in the mountainous mining district of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, in the valley of the Ebbw Fach, and the large industrial population is mainly employed in the numerous coalmines, ironworks and tinplate works.

  • The valley of the Avon, which is only some three miles long, has been from about 1840 a place of much metallurgical activity.

  • They run right up the Esk and die away in the curve of the valley.

  • The valley is beautifully green, and it is so steep that when you are on the high land on either side you look right across it, unless you are near enough to see down.

  • Something made me start up, a low, piteous howling of dogs somewhere far below in the valley, which was hidden from my sight.

  • The white mist lay in the valley; it was going to be a bright warm day, and he would start to work again when he had had his breakfast.

  • Adam hastened with long strides, Gyp close to his heels, out of the workyard, and along the highroad leading away from the village and down to the valley.

  • I've been out of my way for the last twenty minutes to have a look at that place in the valley.

  • A white, crystalline glucoside, of an irritating taste, extracted from the convallaria or lily of the valley.

  • The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

  • If they get up the sides of the hill, they could easy spy us with a glass; but if they'll only keep in the foot of the valley, we'll do yet.

  • Lily of the Valley Water" was instantly incorporated into Kidnapped.

  • It was blazing hot up the valley, windless, with vehement sun upon my shoulders; and I had to labour so consistently with my stick that the sweat ran into my eyes.

  • This family were situated in the Notch of the White Hills, where the wind was sharp throughout the year, and pitilessly cold in the winter,--giving their cottage all its fresh inclemency before it descended on the valley of the Saco.

  • The wayfarer, with no companion but his staff, paused here to exchange a word, that the sense of loneliness might not utterly overcome him ere he could pass through the cleft of the mountain, or reach the first house in the valley.

  • That grand and austere attraction of distance gone, he saw the desert nearer at hand--the valley at his feet.

  • Perhaps an underground stream flowed from the range behind down to the valley floor, and at this point came near to the surface.

  • Then Gale saw a raider gallop swiftly from the group toward the farther outlet of the valley.

  • The valley sloped up and narrowed, to head into an arroyo where grass began to show gray between the clumps of mesquite.

  • Distant mountains hemmed in the valley, raising black spurs above the round lomas and the square-walled mesas.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the valley" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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