Sentence:  The country about Nuncombe Putney is perhaps as pretty as any in England. It is beyond the river Teign, between that and Dartmoor, and is so lovely in all its variations of rivers, rivulets, broken ground, hills and <WSD>dales</WSD>, old broken, battered, time-worn timber, green knolls, rich pastures, and heathy common, that the wonder is that English lovers of scenery know so little of it. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.