dell
noun[C]
literaryuk/del/us/del/asmallvalley, usually withtrees
（有树林的）小谷地Geography: valleys
- abyss
- arroyo
- canyon
- chasm
- cirque
- cwm
- dale
- defile
- glen
- gorge
- gulch
- gully
- hanging valley
- inter-valley
- interfluvial
- ravine
- rift valley
- vale
- valley
- wadi
- At noon we halted and took shelter from the sun in a little dell with a gushing spring bubbling up in the midst, and a patch of willows fringing the banks of the running stream.
- Here and there in a deep pit among the tumbled grey rocks would be a little vivid green dell, with a fairy ring of cultivated vegetation.
- In one of these wild dells they passed the night, and slept soundly and sweetly after their fatigues.
- She was in a fairy dell thick with ferns, and at beautiful distances from each other incredibly splendid oaks spread and almost trailed their lovely giant branches.
- The soft breezes, fresh from shaded dells and nooks of fern, fragrant with the odor of pine and vine and wet wood-violets, blew over the thirsty meadows and golden stubble-fields, and brought an hour of gentle rain.
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I suspect that there are some nice dells and fields on his estate where one could build a convenient cottage.
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Logically that might carry him a greatdellfurther.
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I am not going todellwith the past.
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In the course of time we came to a littledelland there to our delight was a cottage and to our still further delight it was licensed.
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Dellwelcomes the removal of the proposal for a rebuttable presumption of validity for electronic signatures.
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The rises were terraced with the dells between them kept flat.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It must have suited admirably the complexions of the wood-nymphs who no doubt once sported in these secluded dells.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There are 10-20acre farmable dells in the area with milking cattle being the main use.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thedellwas carved by a creek that includes two fairly substantial tumbling waterfalls.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Napa is archaic and means wooded valley ordell.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As such, the bridge is what is normally pictured, and thus is arguably better known than thedellitself.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The soils of the ditches, dells and lowlands in the southwest are filled with groundwater close to the surface.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Winding footpaths take visitors through birch groves, adellof camellia and a rock garden.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The ground, it emerged, was an abandoned, partly excavated, railway cutting known as thedell.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The spelling of the dell's name tends to vary depending on the source.
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- erode
- eroded
- eroded soil
- eroding
- erogenous
- Eros
- erose
- erosion
- erosion control
- erosion of liberty
- erosion of liberty
- erosive
- erotic
- erotica
- erotically
- eroticism
- ERP
- evidence of fraud
- evidence of guilt
- evidence of guilt
- evidence of harm
- evidence of harm
- evidence of infection
- evidence of infection
- evidence of title