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dale
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synonyms: swire ???
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Definition:A low place between hills; a vale or valleyNoah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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A picturesque track it was, by the way; lying along the side of the beck and through the sweetest curves of the dale
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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could be heard briskly exchanging shots with the enemy in the dale.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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