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Example sentences for "bothies"

Lexicographically close words:
botheration; bothered; bothering; bothers; bothersome; bothy; botome; botryoidal; bots; botte
  1. This particular and ancient history that I am telling is a story that is to be heard on winter nights in the fir-wood bothies of Upper Loch Finne.

  2. Hands" are not huddled together nowadays in squalid barns more like cattle than men and women, but bothies in the neighborhood of Thrums are not yet things of the past.

  3. Life in the bothies is not, I should say, so lonely as life at the school-house, for the hands have at least each other's company.

  4. There are bothies where each man makes his own food; but of course the more satisfactory plan is for them to club together.

  5. Every other weaver in Thrums used to have a son a ploughman, and it was the men from the bothies who filled the square on the muckly.

  6. The news quickly spread among the shieling bothies that the stranger had gold about him.

  7. It was at shieling bothies near this place that Alastair Ross called for the Lochaber cattle-lifters, as related in Part I.

  8. There were shieling bothies at the foot of the glen, and the Gairloch men thought their Lochaber foes might be lying in ambush in the bothies.

  9. There are traces of the remains of the residence of Alastair Breac, laird of Gairloch, and of some of the older chiefs of the Mackenzies, on this island, as well as of bothies where illicit distillation used to be carried on.

  10. Life in the bothies is not, I should say, so lonely as life at the schoolhouse, for the hands have at least each other's company.

  11. Hands" are not huddled together nowadays in squalid barns more like cattle than men and women, but bothies in the neighbourhood of Thrums are not yet things of the past.

  12. When the rest are building their bothies and huts, these have finished preparing their food and drink.

  13. When the others begin making their pens and pitching their camp, these have finished building their bothies and huts.

  14. But no huts nor bothies nor tents did they set up that night, nor did they [LL.

  15. Botha is still another name for it, for the men of Erin erected bothies and huts there.

  16. And so, as work turned up for both master and apprentice at a place about twenty miles distant from Cromarty, I set out with him, to make trial, for the first time, of the sort of life that is spent in bothies and barracks.

  17. These barracks or bothies are almost always of the most miserable description.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bothies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.