Cairns was broad, massive, convincing, with a robust urgency of logic which seemed to grasp and fix you, so that while he spoke you could fancy no conclusion possible save that toward which he moved.
But Cairns was the greater judge, and became to the generation which argued before him a model of judicial excellence.
Lord Cairns was sent for, came full of vigour, hope, and counsel, and after an hour's talk so restored the confidence of his ally that Disraeli sat down in the best spirits to compose his electoral manifesto.
Whether Lord Cairns wanted warmth of heart, or whether it was that an inner warmth failed to pierce the cloak of reserve and pride which he habitually wore, I do not attempt to determine.
Even within his own party, Lord Derby, Lord Ellenborough, and Lord Cairns in their several ways surpassed him.
When his chief party manager came to see him he was found restless and dejected, and cried out, "Send forCairns at once.
It is possible that these cairns may be burying-places; but the deserted position, the fact that they were far from villages, and the labour which they must have taken to make, all seem to negative this supposition.
Besides which, there was hardly the regularity about their shape which one meets with in the burying-cairns of even the most savage nations.
The people of that age now buried, now burned, their dead, and did not build cairns over them.
During the next day's march we passed a succession of deserted fireplaces, and in some places saw rows of stonecairns to entice the antelopes into snares.
From a small pass with a few stone cairns we had a surprising view over a valley which ran parallel to the one we had just travelled through, and was full of green meadows.
Small cairns mark the route, and guide us down to the bottom of the valley, here very narrow, and confined between steep, dark schistose rocks.
Sometimes boulders and cliffs are painted red, sometimes cairns are heaped beside the way, now we see chimney-like monuments with bundles of rods decked with streamers, then again long mani mounds, one of them nearly 400 feet long.
Muhamed Isa set up three cairns at the mouth of a very small insignificant side-valley for the guidance of the expected post-runners.
We ride steeply upwards along the valley coming down from the pass, passing over detritus and among boulders, with votive cairnshere and there.
Muhamed Isa had erected three cairns to show us the way where the track of the caravan became indistinct on pebbly ground.
Two Tibetan cairns proved to us that we were on the right way, that is, the one the gold-diggers use.
In some of the camps are greatcairns of stones of a handy size piled up to serve as a store of missiles for the besieged.
At the summit two cairns were found, the bamboo poles which had previously marked them having blown over.
Within a radius of eighty yards from the centre, ice-holes were dug, cairns of heavy boulders were built and rocky prominences dynamited off to secure an efficient holding for the stout "strops" of rope.
No friend of their bosom, no loved one is near, To add a gray stone to their cairns on the steep, Or drop o'er their ashes a tear.
Mrs. Cairns raised the napkins and surveyed the cakes; then she looked at her husband and her guests.
There was a luncheon party at the Cairns mansion, and when the butler brought in the plate of cookies and the doughnuts and delivered the message, trying his best not to smile, Mrs. Cairns looked at them in dismay.
No; bring them here, John," Mr. Cairns said sharply.
Take them to the kitchen, John," Mrs. Cairns ordered.
The servant left the room, and Mr. Cairns sat very quietly looking at the plates before him.
You may go and say that Mrs. Cairns thanks Miss Doane very much for her thoughtfulness in remembering her on her baking day, and that she is sure she will enjoy the doughnuts--and the cookies will be given to the children.
Are the archaic markings on the disputed objects better, or worse, or much on a level with the general run of such undisputably ancient markings on large rocks, cists, and cairns in Scotland?
Sadly they evacuate their old towers or cairns before the Scots who now command the Dumbuck ford from Dumbarton.
The object of such Corporation cairns "was no doubt to mark the limit of their jurisdiction, and also to serve as a beacon to vessels coming up the river.
I have discovered the presence of soft wood piles 5 inches in diameter driven into the ground, and bounding the raised stone arrangement; the stones in these rude circular pavements or cairns are laid slightly slanting inwards.
That scholar writes "River cairns are commonly built on piled platforms, and my doubt is whether this is not the nature of the structure in question" (Dumbuck).
The largest of these cairns measured sixty yards in length, and only ten yards in breadth.
Ure, in his History of Rutherglen and Kilbride, furnishes interesting notices of various large cairns demolished during last century, some of which have already been referred to.
It is commonly described as a Roman camp, and the urns found in numerous cairns which surrounded it are no less unhesitatingly assigned to the legionary invaders.
Underneath the cairns were cists containing human skeletons and various bronze and iron weapons.
A few yards to the north-west of the site which these cairns occupied, there still stands the Kel or Caiy Stone, a mass of the red sandstone of the district, measuring above eleven feet in height.
Another was found, lying beside a human skeleton, in a cist under Carlochan Cairn, one of the largest sepulchral cairns in Galloway, which formerly stood on the top of a high hill on the lands of Chappelerne, parish of Crossmichael.
Cairns in his Unbelief in the Eighteenth Century).
In 1864 the Convocation of the province of Canterbury, having taken the opinion of two of the most eminent lawyers of the day (Sir Hugh Cairns and Sir John Rolt), passed judgment upon the volume entitled Essays and Reviews.
Other cairns are on the west side of Slick Rock creek about a mile from Little Tennessee river, and others south of Robbinsville, near where the trail crosses the ridge to Valleytown, in Cherokee county.
Cairns--Stone cairns were formerly very common along the trails throughout the Cherokee country, but are now almost gone, having been demolished by treasure hunters after the occupation of the country by the whites.
Such cairns had been found on conspicuous landmarks on oxygen-type planets over a range of some twelve hundred light-years.
One might cross it without noticing the summit, were it not for the customary cairns and praying-flags which the Lamas raise in all high places.
Most of the flags and banners one sees to-day on the chortens and roofs of houses, and cairns on the mountain-tops, must be planted with some such inaugural ceremony.
Thanks to these cairns the pilgrim can find his way in snowstorm and fog, though without them he could not easily find it in sunshine.
There flocks of sheep had recently drunk, and rows of cairns ran from the shore to guide antelopes into the traps in the ground.
Folds, stone shelters for marksmen, and stone cairns were to be seen in several places.
On the piers between which chain bridges are stretched over the Tsangpo or other rivers, heaps of stones are piled up, and on all these innumerable votive cairns lie yak skulls and crania of wild sheep and antelopes.
Up on the slab of rock stand three tall cairnsand a small cubical lhato containing votive pyramids of clay.
Thence we were able to ride eight or ten miles all round, and first visited a few of the highest hill-tops, where, when the observations with the theodolites were complete, we built great cairns of stone.
Stones and stone pillars, or even cairns and heaps, have been used as memorials of a visit to some shrine, and are still so used.
The deer mistake the cairns for men and take to the water, where they are easily speared.
It was said of the late Lord Justice Mellish by Lord Cairns that he went right instinctively.
The most carefully considered judgments of Lord Westbury or Lord Cairns may be searched in vain for finer examples of stern accuracy and beautiful aptness of language.
But Miss Cairns alone had the temerity to speak of what the others were thinking.
Later in the evening Miss Cairns led the admiral to one side.
Mary Cairns broke the tenseness by bursting into tears.
Then good rock follows, and bearing towards the right we come in sight of a square-walled chimney overlooking the main gully, marked by small cairns at top and bottom.
When the direction of the wall changes you make a compromise midway between the old and the new, and very soon come on to a line of cairns which continues right on to the boggy tableland above.
In his opinion one of the cairns on the summit was then 'very ancient.
Yet it struck him at the last moment as more unlike the voice of Superintendent Cairns than the hardest riding should have made it, and with the key in the door of the cell the young fellow wheeled round and held the lamp on high.
The fame of Cairns had travelled before him to Rosanna, but none had been prepared for a figure so weird or for a countenance so forbidding and malign.
We couldn't know that Superintendent Cairns had been sent up from Sydney, much less that we should ride right into him in your horse-paddock!
With the elderly sergeant he might have had a chance, man to man, one arm to two; but with Superintendent Cairns his only weapons were his wits.
Even the vindictive Cairns ceased for a time to crow over so abject an adversary in so bitter an hour.
Cairns watched with alternate envy and suspicion; for him there could not be a wink; but most likely the fellow was shamming all the time.
And after all, you needn't tell little crookedCairns how it happened.
Cairns and Cameron, dismounted (while the trooper sat aloof with Howie in the saddle), were at high words about their prostrate prisoner.
To him Professor Cairns attached himself, and received a share of the Reverend Mother's blandishments.
Professor Cairnswas evidently anxious to follow Mr. Clifford, if only in the humble capacity of the proposer of a vote of thanks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cairns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
