Then vse words or incantations, and pulling out the knife, lay otes before her and she wil eate and liue, being nothing at all greeued or hurt with the wound, because the braine lyeth so farre behinde in the head as it is not touched, though you thrust your knife betweene the combe and it:

The houses climb up a narrow combe down which tumbles a bright stream from the side of Hawksdown, the hill which rises to the north-east and is crowned by an ancient encampment.

The red deer run wild at will over the moors, or find a congenial covert in the oak scrub which clothes the combes.

To enter them cross the Suspension Bridge into Somerset, take first turning to R., cross the intervening combe, which runs up from the river, by the first available footpath, and then wander at your will.

At this distance one turns to the right by another stream, and enters a combe containing the ruins of the Doone Houses as they are called.

Là se rencontrent quatre grandes combes (vallées).

Oh! oh! quoth the Devil, 'tis my John-a-Combe.