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Dells

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Dells 

flat, elongated channelless hollows that have no constant flow of water. Their lengths range from 10 m to more than 1,000 m. They are formed by the combined action of occasional shortterm flows of water, which periodically deepen the valley profile of dells, and the slow, descending movements of the weathering surface materials, which fill in the profile.
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Numbers of the men wandered off into rocky dells and ravines in hopes of finding some brook or fountain; some of whom lost their way and did not rejoin the main party.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie's evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of belated travellers.
Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
Fairy belts adown the dells Are merrily pealing, ting, ting, ting
Sylvie and Bruno by Carroll, Lewis View in context
 
 
 
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