I saw that the place where I had spent the night was only a little oasis of green at the base of one of the grimmest corries the imagination could picture.
I saw him drop over a rise which seemed to mark the rim of a little bay into which descended one of the big corries of the mountains.
People canna thole blue skies for ever; he'll be wanting the moors and the misty corries and the gray clouds erelong.
To those corries of my native place will be coming in the yellow moon of brock and foumart--the beasts that dote on the autumn eves--the People of Quietness; have I not seen their lanthoms and heard their laughter in the night?
Whoever they were, they became at last so manifest a danger to our escape out of the head of the glen that we fell back anew on the first plan of going through the corries on the south side of the glen and piercing by them to Dalness.
I know comes in Argile that whisper silken to the winds with juicy grasses, corries where the deer love to prance deep in the cool dew, and the beasts of far-off woods come in bands at their seasons and together rejoice.
In the morning we woke early and drank in the beauty of the clouds lifting off the river and floating up the corries in the distant hills.
Where there is a break in the bank we look up sandy corries that come down from hills, clad with park-like trees and scrub--the very place for deer!
True, few except stout pedestrians and ardent anglers follow up the Duchray Water, past ivied Duchray Castle, to the corries that seam the base of Ben Lomond.
Then the Erichdie, the Bruar, and the Tilt bring down their contributions from remote mountain corriesvisited only by the deer-stalker, through deep wild glens, gloriously wooded at their lower extremity.
No other sound than her convulsive sobs, than his spasmodic breathing, met in the quietude of whisper-music exhaled as an odour by the sea and by the low wind among the corries and upon the grasses of the isle.
Silent and still it was: no sound but the furtive crying of the wind among the invisible corries and peaks, with a flute-like call among the serrated pinnacles of the Ridge of the Stags.
An indescribably delicate shimmer of haze lay on the heights and pastures, and where the corries sloped jaggedly seaward, each with a singing burn splashing or wimpling adown its heart.
The sough of the wind fell from the corries of Craig-an-Iolair, and died in whispers among the fern and dew-cold grasses.
Again a wuthering roar, followed by a scythelike whirlwind, with the sound of rain-torrents flooding the highcorries and washing the windward precipices of Ben Iolair.
Corries or cirques are scooped out on the one hand and naked precipices are left on the other.
The same subaerial forces have eroded lake-basins, dug out corries or cirques, notched the ridges, splintered the crests and furrowed the slopes, leaving no part of the original surface of the uplifted chain unmodified.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
