If a bothy is so artfully concealed by rocks and turves that it escapes notice, even by the most vigilant eye, amid the rugged hill-sides, the smoke arising from the peat-fire will almost certainly betray it.
We had started that morning at five, and when we reached the bothy the starlight was glimmering on the snow.
My man Ivan had a long shot at a chamois and missed him, so that, after a hard day’s climbing, we reached thebothy empty-handed.
After a day of hard climbing we reached a ruined bothy used by mountain shepherds in the height of summer, which marks the highest point to which any of the neighbouring flocks attain even then.
When I was a child the charm of a castle was not in the building of it, but in jumping over it when it was built.
Chancing to come upon Saunders putting the stone one day with the bothy lads, Carmichael had taken his turn, with the result that his stone lay foremost in the final heat by an inch exactly.
He took them to a bothybehind the Half Town, a place with turf walls and never a window, where a blind man sat winding pirns for the weaver-folks.
They went out of the bothy to the wet short grass.
The bothyroared with the tuning, and then the air came melting and sweet from the chanter.
So the three stayed in the bothy and played tune about while time went by the door.
A widow with four children, two imbecile, has obtained two small apartments in a bothy or turf hut near Bonar Bridge, for which she is to pay £2 rent, without any land or means of subsistence.
And I should be obliged to you, were you to tell who it is that wants me to open my bothy door.
They saw a bothy far off, but, though far off, they were soon there.
Deirdre and her foster-mother dwelt in the bothymid the hills without the knowledge or the suspicion of any living person about them and without anything occurring, until Deirdre was sixteen years of age.
The nurse replied, "No less than a king's command and a king's army could put me out of my bothy to-night.
Many a youth was there who had a lithe, leaping and lissom step when they started whose step was faint, failing, and faltering when they reached the bothy on account of the length of the way and roughness of the road.
Yonder, now, down in the bottom of the glen is the bothy where the woman dwells, but I will not go nearer than this to the old woman," said the hunter.
Here is a picture of a bothy of to-day that I visited recently.
Nowadays the harvest is gathered in so quickly, and machinery does so much that used to be done by hand, that this crowding of labourers together, which was the bothy system at its worst, is nothing like what it was.
The bothy was but scantily furnished, though it consisted of two rooms.
They took me to a bothy in the village which had been set apart as a prison for me, and here, a picket of soldiers with loaded muskets surrounding the hut, they left me to myself.
The troopers who guarded the bothy were in either the stupid or the uproarious stage of their drink.
Many a youth was there who had a lithe leaping and lissom step when they started whose step was faint, failing, and faltering when they reached the bothy on account of the length of the way and roughness of the road.
Recollect what you are, sir, only an under-gardener living at the bothy on thirty shillings a week.
Yes," said Mrs Mostyn, who was thinking of the poor fellow lying at the bothy in darkness.
He busied himself about the glass-houses from morning to night, but he did not return to the bothy in the grounds, preferring to go on lodging with old Hannah and her husband.
Is there a sheep-fank or a sheiling-bothy in Argile that is not at the mercy of those blood-hounds?
It was the dawning of the day, a fine day as it proved and propitious to its close, that we ventured to enter one such hut or bothy at the foot of another loch that lay before us.
He had lived several days in a bothy above the Beannan on High Balantyre, and, like ourselves, depended on his foraging upon the night and the luck of the woods.
A bothy is a cottage or hut where labouring servants are lodged, and is sometimes built of wood, as we read in the Jacobite Relics, ii.
Will some one of your numerous correspondents give me a little account of "the bothy system?
Elspat's course was not directly forward, else she had soon been far from the bothy in which she had left her son.
The sun arose on the next morning, and found the bothy silent as the grave.
These took up Doolan's wrong as their own, and that evening, by the dull light of a bothy fire, they held a rude parliament, discussing ways and means of revenge.
And if he discovered a bothy like this, Why, harvest was sure: folk listened.
The bothy we held carouse in Was bright with fire and candle; Tale followed tale like a merry-go-round Whereof Sport turned the handle.
Now, I want you to go up to the bothy of Fergus McDonald and see about the thatch, and Willie Fullerton has written to say that his milk-cow is bad.
She Anra's bothy sneck may tirl An' loup like ony filly; Love stirs her as the pipers' skirl Some kiltit Hielan' billie.
I believe," said Lieutenant Everard, "that Laurence simply turned in his tracks and went back to that bothy to carry more water for the black-headed girl!
He had left the warning if she should happen to visit the Bothy while it was being watched for the return of the young men whom the "press" had missed on the day of Patsy's wild race in the yellow sandals.
Hardly had Patsy gotten the bothy to her liking--or something like it--when Jean arrived, full of wonder and joy.
And if ye please, Patsy Ferris, wha may it be that is in danger at the Bothy o' Blairmore?
Then Diarmid lost sight of the girl for a minute, but when he saw her again she was far out on the perilous goat-track which led down to the bothy itself.
She would save Stair and Julian by raising the siege of the Bothy on the Wild of Blairmore.
She knew that he had been with Uncle Julian and Stair in theBothy of Blairmore.
Patsy Ferris, in blue gown and yellow sandals, very much out of breath, washing the dishes in the Bothy of the Wild of Blairmore?
And compared to what our army has to suffer lying out on these frozen rocks--why, the Bothy of Blairmore is a palace!
On the morning of the second day after Sergeant Robinson had started his digging team, Stair looked out of the door of the Bothy and, instead of the black spread of water he had left there over-night, the Wild of Blairmore was dry.
The written characters danced before his eyes, and it was only the strongest sense of duty which turned his face towards the Bothy and Julian Wemyss.
Do not be foolish, Liz McCreath," said her comrade, "without doubt it was to save her uncle that was trapped in the Bothy of Blairmore at the same time!
Nowadays the harvest is gathered in so quickly, and machinery does so much that used to be done by hand, that this crowding of laborers together, which was the bothy system at its worst, is nothing like what it was.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bothy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
