I was unwilling to go below before we had passed beyond the sight of Stromness, but when we were abreast of the Black Craigs I thought I would go down and have a drop of hot coffee.
But I have seen many a good ship wrecked on the Black Craigs in the spring time, and I can aye tell when a ship will come back safe to Stromness.
When I had taken it up from the sea at the Sand Craigs I had returned it to her with only a glance; and as I had often seen it since, without any mystery, I had hardly noticed it.
As I sat on the Sand Craigs I almost fancied I could see Marjory's figure once again on the lonely rock.
Behind the main body of the Sand Craigs are two isolated rocks whose tops are just uncovered at high tide, but which are washed with every wave.
When I reached the Sand Craigs I scrambled at once to the farthest point of the rocks, and came within sight of the isolated rock.
So we'll go over the Craigs as soon as the snow melts from them.
Five years later, in the summer of one hundred and thirty-five, the Craigs were passable for a few weeks.
The weeks dragged into months and at last enough snow was gone from the Craigs that Humbolt and Dan Barber could start.
The Craigs were still white and impassable with snow that summer but the snow was receding higher each year.
They completed their circuit and reached the foot of the long, steep slope of the Craigs without finding anything more.
The Craigs had been impassable with snow for five years and the country at the north end of the plateau, where the iron had been found, had been buried under never-melting snow and growing glaciers for twenty years.
From every quarter, up from the green meadows of the Minnoch Valley, over the scaurs of the Straiton hills, down past the craigs of Craigfacie, over from the deep howe of Carsphairn, streams of men came walking and riding.
From where I sat I could see the watchers on the craigs above the Hollan Isle, and those also over on the hill by the Folds.
But as soon as ever we reached the Craigs we fell to our fantasy.
As they sang, I watched to see the sentinel on the craigsturn him about to listen to us, and noted the light glance on his sword, and on the barrel of the musket on which he leaned.
Every day he had gone up to the top of the craigs that looked towards Loch Spellanderie.
One post alone remained to be visited, and that was a point of observation on the craigs near Arthur's Seat.
All around was darkened by the descending water; and the accumulating floods, dashing from the projecting craigs above, swelled the burn in his path to a roaring river.
Having gained the shore, or rather the broken rocks, that lie at the foot of the stupendous craigswhich surround the Isle of Arran, Wallace and his sturdy assistants conveyed the countess and her terrified women up their acclivities.
But for your father; name to me the place of his confinement, and as I have not the besiegers of Cartlane Craigs to encounter.
It's odd," she observed, "that Colonel Arran and the Craigs never exchange civilities.
In thes craigs are built in houses, which be the vertue of Antiperistasis is cold in summer and hot in winter, tho their be some of them they dare not dwell in in winter by reason of the looseness of the earth then.
This fable minded me of the story we have heir at home, that we can show in Leith Wind craigs the impressa that Wallace made wt his foot when he stood their and shoot over the steeple of Edenburgh.
It must have been a far-flung romance, for the Craigs reputedly came from up in the Wind River district.
After her death, and while Father was setting up business over here, the Craigs moved in with Grandaddy.
After London came Edinburgh, city of stately beauty, where among Scottish friends of theCraigs Georgiana learned whence her husband's family had sprung, and their noble origin and history.
The speaker's black eyes, heavily lidded in a pale, discontented face, followed the Craigs out of sight as she spoke.
So came on the great day; and when it had arrived, and the Craigs were guests of Aunt Olivia, making ready for the ceremony, Georgiana had her chance to return to Stuart the support he had given her in the hour of her own marriage.
It was in the following June, on the anniversary of the marriage of the James McKenzie Stuarts, that the Jefferson Craigs had their first opportunity to see with their own eyes how that marriage was prospering.
He gaed up Moffat Water and ower the muckle hill they ca' Corriefragauns, and got on nane sae bad till he cam to the awfu' craigs abune Loch Skene.
For in the steep craigs and screes there were many caves and holes where one might lie hid for months.
I thought it scarce worth my while to be wandering aimlessly among mosses and craigswhen something very like a road lay beneath me; so I made haste to get down and ease my limbs with the level way.
The babes sleeping on the breasts of their nurses, trembled with fear at the loud uproar; and they cried as the smoking clouds of the rainy season, resounding between the two mountain craigs resembling the breasts.
It has thousands of ridges and steeps, craigs and cliffs, below its two eyes of sun and moon; and these are lauded as celestial regions by the Gods, gandharvas and kinnaras that inhabit in them.
The roar of the horses passing over was as the roar of the sea when the storm drives up from the west on the Craigs of Culzean.
Illustration: 0366] At Posso Craigs was the eyry whence Henry Ashton in the "Bride of Lammermuir" got his hawks.
Will you forget all that happened at Sand Court, and just remember that the Maynards and the Craigs are kind and polite children, and never mind about anybody else.
Of course the senior Craigs and Maynards became good friends also, and the two ladies especially spent many pleasant hours together.
None of the Craigs were drunkards," said Ellen, giggling.
He knew, also, that the great merchant had not a defensive sense of humor, for humor, in the exercise of its kindly though effective functions, would long ago have put theseCraigs to an unoffending death.
Witherspoon gave this goat-like grunt, and Henry knew that he had heard of the Craigs until he was sick of their dark complexion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "craigs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
