noun
definition
A valley.
Examples of vales in a Sentence
The road goes north-west and meanders through pleasant vales and pastures.
The surface is diversified by vales, meadows, sand-dunes and tidal marshes.
On both sides throughout the dale numerous narrow tributary vales open out.
The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my wood-yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black.
It 's an area of sweeping sands backed by green farmland, fertile vales and forests.
The kingdom of Assyria, which was the outgrowth of the primitive settlement on the site of the city of Assur, was developed by a probably gradual process of colonization in the rich vales of the middle Tigris region, a district watered by the Tigris itself and also by several tributary streams, the chief of which was the lower Zab.'
It's an area of sweeping sands backed by green farmland, fertile vales and forests.
It is supposed by some writers to be the Lily of Scripture, as it grows abundantly in the vales in Palestine.
The belt is quite narrow, trailing off into clay vales along the southern or eastern dip slopes.
The vales of Kent and Sussex are rich undulating lowlands within the area of the Weald, separated by the Forest Ridges, and enclosed by the North and South Downs.
Wooded vales, land carpeted in wildflowers, tranquil spots where birdsong fills the air - these are precious places which we must protect.
Westmorland presents continuous succession of mountain, moor, and fell, intersected by deep winding vales, traversed by numerous streams.
In contrast to the surrounding clay vales, the acidic soils of the ridge support areas of heathland and mixed woodland.
Its direction is now again north-west, and meandering through pleasant vales and pastures it passes Hassfurt and reaches Schweinfurt.
The surface is diversified by drumlins, vales, meadows, sand-dunes and tidal marshes.
Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words, quagmires and pits, steep hills, dark and horrible glens, soft vales, sunny pastures, a gloomy castle, of which the courtyard was strewn with the skulls and bones of murdered prisoners, a town all bustle and splendour, like London on the Lord Mayor's Day, and the narrow path, straight as a rule could make it, running on up hill and down hill, through city and through wilderness, to the Black River and the Shining Gate.