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Example sentences for "haughs"

Lexicographically close words:
hauer; hauere; haueua; hauf; haugh; haughtie; haughtier; haughtiest; haughtily; haughtiness
  1. The lav'rock there, wi' her white breast And gentle throat sae narrow; There's sport eneuch for gentlemen On Leader haughs and Yarrow.

  2. O Leader haughs are wide and braid And Yarrow haughs are bonny; There Willie hecht to marry me If e'er he married ony.

  3. Above Caerlanrig, Teviot winds through the haughs and moors and under the alders to its source at Teviot-stone.

  4. Whether or no, however, it is certain that many silver coins having dates of about the time of the battle were in Sir Walter's day ploughed up on the river haughs of Tinnis.

  5. The Haughs of Crumdel; Giving a full account of that Memorable Battle fought by the Great Montrose and the Clans, against Oliver Cromwell; To which are added, The Broom of Cowdenknowes, The Highland Plaid.

  6. The Haughs of Crumdel &c The Tragedy of Sir James the Rose.

  7. This is the fate of haughs or plains erected by the operations of a river, and again destroyed in the natural course of things, or in the very continuation of that active cause by which they had been formed.

  8. I'll speak him fair, and his green haughs are a braw jointure.

  9. There is in several collections, the old song of "Leader-Haughs and Yarrow.

  10. In the wide reaches of water in Stobo Haughs I have cut down much of the encumbering brushwood and thus laid the places open for fishing with the rod.

  11. I struck straight for the ridge of Dreva, and rounding it, faced the long valley of Tweed, with Rachan woods and Drummelzier haughs and the level lands of Stobo.

  12. The place was rough and moory, and full of runlets of water, but Maisie was well used to such land, for it was no worse than the haughs of Manor, and level turf compared with the brow of the Deid Wife or the shoulder of Scrape.

  13. Twas no vantage to ford the stream, so I rode down the left bank among the damp haughs and great sedgy pools.

  14. Late that afternoon Sir Juden Murray was having a daunder[7] in the low-lying haughs which lay along the banks of the Tweed, close to his old tower.

  15. Where, then, could they come from but from some nests of the colony of seagulls which lived in the haughs that dropped down into the sea from Rhaby Hills?

  16. O Leader-haughs are wide and braid And Yarrow-haughs are bonny; There Willie hecht to marry me If e'er he married ony.

  17. But for a while the sheltered haughs and sloping banks of the Clyde still deserve the name of the "Orchard of Scotland.

  18. But who that has seen the banks and braes of the Don, from the Auld Brig[17] to the Haughs of Grandholm, can ever forget it?


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