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Example sentences for "cairngorm"

Lexicographically close words:
caiques; cair; cairds; cairfull; cairn; cairns; cairry; cairt; caise; caisses
  1. Again after dinner we walked out, looking at the shop-windows of jewellers, where ornaments made of cairngorm pebbles are the most peculiar attraction.

  2. To many people the Cairngorm range is composed of shapeless, flat-topped mountains devoid almost of any character.

  3. We have waxed enthusiastic over the Cairngorm mountains.

  4. Why should not an Irish club, like the Climbers' Club, the Cairngorm Club, or the Scottish Mountaineering Club, be formed?

  5. Even the bald space at one side of the Glengarry cap glistened, as did the cairngorm brooch on the shoulder and the tops of the silver buttons.

  6. It was one of the round Bruce brooches, of dark pebble, with a silver fern-leaf lying across it, the dots of small Cairngorm stones.

  7. I had been looking for Cairngorm specimens in a shop, saying I wanted a brooch that you would wear, when Norman Ogilvie came riding after the carriage, looking quite hot and eager.

  8. It is needless to tell the traveller, that by this route he may approach the scenery of the Cairngorm hills from Laggan, Rannoch, and other places near Spey side.

  9. It is true, that to see our friends the Cairngorm hills, one must walk, and that somewhat stiffly--but this is seldom an obstacle in any place where pedestrianism is not unfashionable.

  10. At last a mountain thrusts a spur into the glen, and divides it into two: we are here at the foot of Cairngorm of Derrie, or the lesser Cairngorm.

  11. When you reach the top, if the day be clear, the whole Cairngorm range is before you on the other side of the valley, from summit to base, as you may see Mont Blanc from the Col de Balm, or the Jungfrau from the Wengern Alp.

  12. But it is not true that the Cairngorm range of mountains is a distant place to tourists.

  13. Still there are stronger charms about the great centre of the Cairngorm range.

  14. She opened her ungloved right hand to reveal a bonnet brooch of beautiful and very ancient workmanship showing the crest of the MacDonalds of Dhrum set with a fine cairngorm and some exquisite old paste.

  15. Aunt Janet came into the room, her thin face set and grim, her rusty dress of old black satin all cracking, and her great cairngorm brooch marking her from the rest in capes and homespun.

  16. Cairngorm is a favourite ornamental stone in Scotland, being set in the lids of snuff-mulls, in the handles of dirks and in brooches for Highland costume.

  17. Granite blocks, like those of the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland, or the long ridge of the Leinster Chain, which have intruded into their surroundings, are regarded as batholites the crests of which have become exposed by denudation.

  18. Serpentine abounds in several places, especially at Portsoy, where it is known as 'Portsoy marble', and Scotch topazes or cairngorm stones are found on the mountains in the south.

  19. As it is I am going to make Cairngorm do something for Terwilliger this summer.

  20. Cairngorm liked Terwilliger, tipped him handsomely on parting, and asked me to take an interest in him.

  21. They had tried to put him out of the room, but he had insisted on remaining, and when the police appeared it was Terwilliger who had shown Cairngorm into the dumb-waiter.

  22. Tim knew of Terwilliger's acquaintance with Cairngorm, and he promised Terwilliger a five dollar bill if he would persuade Cairngorm to patronize his establishment.

  23. My mother is visiting at the castle of the Earl of Cairngorm and wants me to take a lot of people for a coaching trip through the Scottish Highlands.

  24. I saw Cairngorm off, much relieved to get him off my hands, for we had very little in common, and he was so lacking in principle that my feeling for him was only one of contemptuous pity.

  25. Cairngorm saw through it, though Terwilliger did not, and went out after dinner without explaining where he was going.

  26. We knew nothing of this at the time, but it was late at night before Cairngorm returned to our house, and we had all been very anxious about him.

  27. I remember, he said that the Earl of Cairngorm brought Polo's brother to this country on his yacht.

  28. You see, young Cairngorm is a regular cub.

  29. So Kit shook his whip, and the Cairngorm flashed in the sun, and the spirit of youth did the same.

  30. The beautiful cairngorm stones are still sometimes found on the mountain from which they take their name, and in all volcanic regions minerals are plentiful.

  31. Still more striking is the example furnished by the great central mass of the Grampians, comprising the Cairngorm Mountains and the great corries and precipices round the head of the Dee.

  32. On driving up to the 'Cairngorm Arms,' I found a gentleman of military appearance standing at the doer, and occupied seemingly in smoking a cigar.


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