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sough

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sough
Northern English dialect a sewer or drain or an outlet channel
sough
A small drain at the foot of an embankment; carries the surface water from it to a side drain.
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Save the dull piping of insects and the sough of the leaves, there was silence everywhere--the sweet restful silence of nature.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
The opera proceeded, it was a piece with a storm in it; the mimic thunder began to mutter, the mimic wind began to wail and sough, and the mimic rain to patter.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
That evening calm betrayed alike the tinkle of the nearest streams, the sough of the most remote.
Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
 
 
 
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