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Definitions of valley
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The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reentrant angle.
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A hollow or low tract of land between hills or mountains; a low extended plain washed by a river; the gutter or internal angle formed by two inclined sides of a roof.
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Low ground. esp. between hills; lowland.
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A tract of low- lying land bounded by hills or mountain- ranges; in arch., the gutter or internal angle formed by the two inclined sides of a roof.
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A vale or low land between hills or mountains: a low, extended plain, usually watered by a river:- pl. VALLEYS.
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a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river
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A depression between hills.
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The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.
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The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.
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Low land between hills or mountains.
Quotes of valley
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I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.
– Anthony Michael Hall -
Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
– Douglas Hyde -
I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.
– John Keegan -
Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine -making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.
– Thomas Keller -
Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress.
– Sue Kelly -
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
– Charles Lyell -
No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.
– Charles Lyell -
Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
– Richard M. Nixon -
I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl.
– Robin Wright Penn -
I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.
– David Hyde Pierce -
Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley
– Joel Rosenberg -
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
– Leo Tolstoy -
Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.
– Linus Torvalds
Usage examples for valley
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“ This pretty valley with its homes and church and chapel is a doomed valley ”
– Vanishing England by P. H. Ditchfield -
“ Then as they looked down into the valley on the other side, they suddenly discovered the fires in the Shawnee village. ”
– Spotted Deer by Elmer Gregor -
“ " The night is dark," said Kaschita, " and the road to the valley is dangerous." ”
– The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers -
“ Have you no wish to leave your valley for a little while and see the world? ”
– The Garden of Eden by Max Brand -
“ When we met you, Kaydessa and I, it was outside that valley ”
– The Defiant Agents by Andre Alice Norton -
“ Louie found the right valley ”
– Eight Keys to Eden by Mark Irvin Clifton -
“ We have set up a new home on the other side of the Edam Valley and in some ways it is nicer. ”
– Sweethearts at Home by S. R. Crockett -
“ Then there's the Khula Klaht valley ”
– On With Torchy by Sewell Ford -
“ " You see," said the doctor, " there is even more to do over here than in Happy Valley ”
– In Happy Valley by John Fox -
“ She stood where Jeff had stood before the open window and looked across the valley ”
– The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories by Ethel M. Dell -
“ But it is a great way from that one to that other, and a great deep valley between them. ”
– The-Travels-of-Sir-John-Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir -
“ This valley was inhabitated by other than the whites in days gone by. ”
– See America First by Orville O. Hiestand -
“ They were now at some height above the valley and the prospect was magnificent. ”
– For the Sake of the School by Angela Brazil -
“ In going up this valley for the first two or three miles we are going directly towards the Jungfrau." ”
– Rollo in Switzerland by Jacob Abbott -
“ The church and valley were the same, but seemed to have lost their charm since I last saw them with my mother. ”
– Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare -
“ She rose and stood silent a moment, looking down the valley ”
– Roderick Hudson by Henry James -
“ But do you not suppose the soldiers around Valley Forge cut down the woods as well? ”
– A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda Minnie Douglas -
“ Big game was moving down to the valley ”
– The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut -
“ What is the news from your valley ”
– A Lieutenant at Eighteen by Oliver Optic -
“ From there it was not a long ride to the valley in which the dance was to be held. ”
– The Boy Scouts On The Range by Lieut. Howard Payson