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Definition of Coombe
1. combe [n -S] - See also: combe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coombe
Literary usage of Coombe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1903)
"coombe. survey, and had placed his warrant on other land. In such case, the land
was universally considered as returning to the mass of vacant land, ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1816)
"When did you leave coombe ?—We left that on the Monday, ... We went from thence
to coombe on the Sunday night, to the house of widow Greville ; her sou ..."
3. The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the by Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (1904)
"coombe ' LONDON, 23 July, 1774. DEAR FRIEND:—I received with great ... Mr.
coombe, whom I recommend to your friendship as a young gentleman of great merit, ..."
4. Poems of Places by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1876)
"He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he
plunged to endless night- coombe-Ellen. coombe ELLEN. ..."
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