See dale in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "c. 1587, Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love:",
"text": "And we will all the pleasures prove / That hills and valleys, dales and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields",
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"ref": "1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 57:",
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"ref": "1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Clock House at Nuncombe Putney”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 113:",
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