It's an area of sweeping sands backed by green farmland, fertile vales and forests.    From LearnThat.org.  [yourdictionary.com]

To add to the confusion, the word "vale" is used to mean a dozen things in Spain, including good, ok, yes, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vale] Reference

And in the midst of the vale is a little river that men clepe TORRENS.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference

The vale is a wide one, and on the north-east side are high fells, Cross Fell among others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference

And above the vale is the mount of Olivet; and it is clept so for the plenty of olives that grow there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference

The country possesses the two features of hill and vale, that is to say, the fairest plains and the highest mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anabasis] Reference

In that part of the vale, which is very narrow, and about six leagues long, they raise yearly to the value of above 80,000 crowns.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.] Reference

Even the floor of the vale was a depth of grass, and no torrent ran in it but only a little hidden stream, leafy like our streams at home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path to Rome] Reference

Can anyone explain the Spanish word vale to me?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vale] Reference

I believe that it is spelled "vale", but I heard it in casual conversation rather than read it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vale] Reference

Down through a thing you call a vale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1] Reference

Shapeless all, in vale and mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference

If this had been the fate of our friend Bjerk, we should have dismissed him here with a confident "vale" on his life's pilgrimage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from Two Hemispheres] Reference

This tree was easily destroyed by frost (Ps. 78: 47), and therefore it is found mostly in the "vale" (1 Kings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

'vale' in verse 2 -- the one meaning a much broader opening than the other -- and from it came the 'five smooth stones.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference

At nones fremannes borde. ne haue þu to vale worde.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts] Reference

In the vale of tears, in the place which he hath set.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference

So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference

So Abram removing his tent, came, and dwelt by the vale of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference

Were echoed from the cliffs around and from the vale below.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference

And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the vale of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 13: 1 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision] Reference

"MONSIEUR MCELROY, Factor of Fort de Seviere, ave atque vale.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference

He held me close, however, and the vale grew darker and darker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference

And in that vale, where wound the brook, with waters murmuring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference

This world ain't a vale o 'tears unless you make it so on purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference

We heard she went rejoicing in that hope that reaches beyond the vale.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

It was the first heavy blow that I had experienced in this vale of tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference

All these came together into the woodland vale, which now is the salt sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference

I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem and I will mete out the vale of tabernacles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference

Over this vale rain-clouds still cast their shadows, and distant thunder muttered behind the Owl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference

And Abisai the son of Sarvia slew of the Edomites in the vale of the saltpits, eighteen thousand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 13: 1 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision] Reference

Were the atrocities committed in the vale of Wyoming and Cherry Valley unprecedented among the Waldensian fastnesses and the mountains of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference