The dark shadow yonder is the mouth of the Deeping-coomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

Their torches could be seen winding up the coomb in many lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

Thence it fell into the Deeping-coomb and out into the Westfold Vale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

They had climbed far up into the Deeping-coomb when they looked back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

But they sat silent on their horses, and they gazed down upon the Deeping-coomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

Vainly they crawled and clambered about the walls of the coomb, seeking to escape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

From Deeping-coomb they rode to Isengard, and saw how the Ents had busied themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

‘Late to be traipsing athwart this coomb — hey?’ said the engaged man of fifty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wessex Tales] Reference

The night was old and the East grey when they rode up at last from Deeping-coomb and came back to the Hornburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

The Treasury lawyers need to go through the pension contract with a fine tooth coomb and find a get out clause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

Off course we all know whey this warty do no coomb, becourgh the tangs they are awl freezup, awl on they, awl they freezop.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spaniard in the Works] Reference

Off course we all know whey this warty do no coomb, be - courgh the tangs they are awl freezup, awl on they, awl they freezop.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spaniard In The Works]

The OED defines “coomb” both as a boiling receptacle and as “a sharp and steep ravine where streams all rush downhill”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Commas and Periods — Inside Closing Quotation Marks or Outside Them?] Reference

Thus the torrent which raved down the coomb beneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lying Prophets] Reference

In the coomb beneath Drift, flashing as though red-hot from a theater of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lying Prophets] Reference

Brits have the habit to coomb their lawn, and mole heaps are a big no no.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhotocatsEyes] Reference

Behind the house opened a narrow coomb and descended a road to the dwelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Redmaynes] Reference

"Late to be traipsing athwart this coomb -- hey?" said the engaged man of fifty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: England] Reference

As the coomb opened, the squire went along a hedge near but not quite to the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference

Down below the sea was dashing into the mouth of the glen, or coomb, as they call it there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seaboard Parish Volume 3] Reference

The entrance to a coomb, the widening mouth of a valley, is beyond, with copses on the slopes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Open Air] Reference

I asked him the name of the ravine and he told me it was Ceunant coomb or hollow-dingle coomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pocket George Borrow] Reference

Amos therefore bid him use his legs, hasten to the farm, break the news, and dispatch a couple of men to the coomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lying Prophets] Reference

Direct Old English borrowings from Brythonic are of the ground, but extremely thin on it: down, tor, coomb, pool, brock.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2] Reference

But the orchard lands of the coomb below were fair, and many primroses twinkled in the soaking green of the tall hedge-banks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lying Prophets] Reference

In the meantime the company of pursuers had reached the end of the hog's-back elevation which dominated this part of the coomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: England] Reference

I bethought me, however, to try the creek which drained the coomb, and see whether it might not have made itself a smoother way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erewhon] Reference

It was evidently intended to keep the rabbits from the cultivated flower beds which had been dug from the green slope of the coomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Redmaynes] Reference

Two kilderkins, or strikes, make a measure called a barrel, liquid, and a coomb, dry; this last term being ancient and little used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public Papers] Reference

(which may be of various dimensions), the coomb, the last, the barrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852] Reference

In the lonely barton by yonder coomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merry Christmas from Burke's Corner] Reference

His coomb was redder than the fyn coral.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canterbury Tales] Reference

Two strikes, or kilderkins, a coomb or barrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public Papers] Reference

4 Bushels --- 1 coomb -- coomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses] Reference

‘By perilous paths in coomb and dell.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Bones Will Keep]