DURA DEN, a glen near Cupar-Fife, famous for the number of ganoid fossil fishes entombed in its sandstone.
It may be described as flanked on the west and south by the Glen and Water of Nevis, on the east by the river and Glen of Treig, and on the north by the river and Glen of Spean.
The ascent is usually made from Castleton of Braemar, by way of the Linn of Dee, Glen Lui and Glen Derry.
From the head of Glen Derry, with its blasted trees, the picture of desolation, it becomes more toilsome, but is partly repaid by the view of the remarkable columnar cliffs of Corrie Etchachan.
The bridle road up the mountain leaves Glen Nevis at Achintee; it has a gradient nowhere exceeding 1 in 5, and the ascent is commonly effected in two to three hours.
Leave troubling, and we'll go this night toGlen da Ruadh, 58 where the salmon will be running with the tide.
What are Conchubor's seals and all your talk of Emain and the fools of Meath beside one evening in Glen Masain?
It is not I will quit your head, Naisi, when it's many a night we saw the stars among the clear trees of Glen da Ruadh, or the moon pausing to rest her on the edges of the hills.
Upon a gentle eminence, whence the castle and the greater part of the glen might be distinctly viewed, stood the lovers.
Does Allan Cameron mean to say that these woods and streams of Glen Feracht, the lofty mountains around him, the tints of the evening sky over his head, and these alone, have stirred up his soul to this pitch of enthusiasm?
His grief was as the howling of the winter wind, in a deep glen between great mountains.
In a certain wild and romantic glen in the Highlands of Scotland, there is a cave opening beneath the brow of a huge overhanging cliff, and half concealed by wreathed roots and wild festoons of brier and woodbine.
Full of resentment at what he deemed so deep an insult, he was ranging the groves and thickets of Glen Feracht in quest of Cameron, like a wolf prowling for his unconscious victim.
This glen lies a mile or more from the inn, and is about a mile and a half through.
At the inn at Ashford Bridge you have the celebrated Devil's Glen on one hand, and Rosanna on the other.
Directing its course thence, it turns to the south, and flows through a deep romanticglen to Castletown Roche, after which it enters the Blackwater at Bridgetown Abbey.
Now the Aar was left behind in the icy glen where it rises, and the road went in an artificial and carefully built set of zig-zags up the face of the cliff.
I climbed the side of the glen at random, and on the summit I found, to my disgust, a road.
The wall of this glen before me is obviously the ridge of the spur; the rock must be left to the north, and I have but to cross the ridge by its guidance.
This was to get us up at once into the tops of the mountains: to go round by a circuit, turning the heads of Glen Lyon, Glen Lochay, andGlen Dochart, and come down upon the lowlands by Kippen and the upper waters of the Forth.
But now we came on something that put all fears out of season; and that was a deep rushing burn, that tore down, in that part, to join theglen river.
In this steady rain the springs of the mountain were broken up; every glen gushed water like a cistern; every stream was in high spate, and had filled and overflowed its channel.
On Monday we walked through the glen at Ariccia and round the glorious old woods of the Parco Chigi, full of cyclamen, cytisus, blue squills, green iris, and masses of dark violets.
Ford and Highcliffe--drawing, reading aloud with talking at intervals, and walks in the glen and gardens.
The Dargle is a wooded glen of extreme beauty, three miles from Bray, from which a little mountain stream runs at the bottom of the gorge, quite hidden at times in a depth of wooded bank which must approximate three hundred feet.
Powerscourt, the Dargle, the Glen of the Downs, and the Devil's Glen are the chief points of interest upon which one first comes from Dublin.
A mysterious terror was thus attached to the dale, which afforded access from the broad valley of the Tweed, up the little glen we have described, to the fortalice called the Tower of Glendearg.
The hills which ascend on each side of this glen are very steep, and rise boldly over the stream, which is thus imprisoned within their barriers.
As he spoke thus, he arrived in the sequestered glen of Corri-nan-shian, as it verged upon the hour of noon.
There lies the venison our dame wanted," said Martin; "who would have thought of an out-lying stag being so low down the glen at this season?
My companions became affrighted, and hastened down the glen as men caught in trespass.
This must appear plain to all who know the actual character of the Glen of Allen, and have taken the trouble to read the account of the imaginary Glendearg.
He took a glen at a step, a hill at a leap, and travelled all day till evening.
He blew the horn till the glenwas full of them from end to end.
When at the edge of the glen Oisin began to sound the borabu.
Oisin took it up and they went on to Glenna Smuil (Thrush's Glen).
He took a glen at a step and a hill at a leap till he came to the shore of the sea, where he caught up two sticks, put one across the other, then gave them a tip of the hand, and a fine vessel rose out of the two pieces of wood.
They went, a glen at a step, a hill at a leap, and thirty-two miles at a running leap, till they came to the grand castle where the feast was to be given.
He took a glen at a step, a hill at a leap, and lochs and seas at a bound till he entered the Gruagach's house in the eastern world.
They slipped from the crowd and away they went, a hill at a leap, a glen at a step, and thirty-two miles at a running-leap.
They took a glen at a step, a hill at a leap, and the sea at a bound.
When he heard Fin's words, Gilla went off without delay; he took a glen at a step, and a hill at a leap, till he came to the sea.
The boy let slip the chain and the dog rushed through the glen killing everything before him.
The glen was beginning to bestrew itself with want of light, instead of shadows; and bushy places thickened with the imperceptible growth of night.
As his great arms swung, and his back rose and fell, and the sway of his legs seemed to shake the bank, and the ring of his axe filled the glenwith echoes, wrath and terror were fighting a hot battle in the heart of Lancelot.
The story of their settlement in this glen had flagged out of memory of gossip by reason of their calm obscurity, and all that survived was the belief that they were queer, and the certainty that they would not be meddled with.
In the deep cut of the glen there was very little snow, only a few veins and patches here and there, threading and seaming the steep, as if a white-footed hare had been coursing about.
Then he went back to the glen in which the horses were tethered.
He believed they would stay in the glen or near it, as the pasturage was good, and the water plentiful, and that they could be found when needed.
The moon, which I had seen a pallid crescent all afternoon, faintly illuminated the summit of the hills, but not a ray fell into the bottom of the glen where I was lying.
Instantly, horses were harnessed, and sundry barrels of whisky were got upon a cart, driven at a gallop round Hill End, and buried in the mossy glen behind Kirk Yetton.
Sure, such a glen fair Dian with her train Chose to disport in, when Actaeon bold That sight with mortal eyes dared to behold Which mortals may not see and life retain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bottom; dell; gap; gill; glen; grove; hollow; pass; ravine; trench; trough; vale; valley
