An old, wrinked, peat-smoked dame gave us much good advice and (better still) a sprig of white heather apiece.
Those students who received the whole of their instruction at home, and got ordained without going abroad, were styled heather priests.
Upon the radiant heather bees and butterflies were busy, she knew, and the birds on that side were just beginning their autumn songs.
The storm blew huskily over bushes of heather and furze that it was unable materially to disturb, and the travellers proceeded as before.
He touched it, turned about, and in a short time nothing remained of him but quick regular brushings against theheather in the deep broad shadow of the moor.
Three great avenues of them run round a triangle half a mile across, and outside the shade of their black branches the purple heather and waving bracken form a carpet fit for elves and fairies.
She walked straight onward, crushing the furze and prickly heather beneath her bleeding feet.
I sleep among the hills, The heather is my bed; I dip the termon-well for drink, And pull the sloe for bread.
A barth of new heather He bore on his shoulder, And a bundle of whitlow-grass Under his oxter.
He aye said the heather wasna dry yet wi' the Covenanters' bluid.
And laddie, I am askin' God to keep me pure, for my love will hae its bloom some day far ayont us, like the bonnyheather when the winter's bye.
He chose the name The White Heather, showing how his thoughts travelled back to the day, nearly thirty years before, when he had gathered on a Scotch mountain the symbolic sprig of white heather to give to the Princess Royal.
Perhaps the most touching of all the hundreds of wreaths sent for the funeral was one of simple heather which had been made by the Emperor's younger children.
He is coming home, he says, and then we are to be wed, and it is the white heather that will bring us luck.
I remember one day, as I sat on the churchyard wall, Sheila came over the moor, and she had a sprig of white heather in her hand.
I have not been in the Highlands for years; it will be grand to see the heather and the grouse again.
Red-hot in summer, freezing in winter, is that big, purple heather country of broken stone.
Mithras, God of the Noontide, the heather swims in the heat, Our helmets scorch our foreheads; our sandals burn our feet!
We saw him grow small across theheather as he walked to the galley.
The Roman-born officers rather looked down on us for doing this, but we preferred the heather to their amusements.
Back we went—back across the heather under the moon, till it was nearly morning, and our poor beasts stumbled on some ruins.
You are quite safe so long as you are his guest, and wear a sprig of heather where it can be seen.
The whole garrison of the Wall moved out twice a year, and solemnly burned the heather for ten miles North.
She lay silent for a little while, getting her breath, while she gazed at a withered bunch of heather hanging from a beam.
There was a rustling among the heather above, and a face suddenly blocked the blue of the sky--a vacant face that peered down with the curiosity of a child.
Small bushes, bracken, and brambles mixed among the heather made walking difficult, and there were several boggy places which she was obliged to skirt.
THE GOAT PATHS The crooked paths go every way Upon the hill--they wind about Through the heather in and out Of the quiet sunniness.
The heather and the gorse about In summer bloom were coming out, Some yellow and some red.
And I must rise and leave my dell, And leave my dimpled water well, And leave my heather blooms.
So I went and waited by the Boreland march dyke--a wild place where even the heather is laid flat by the wind.
Of the Cruives, with the heather thick and purple upon them, not a trace.
The young heather contains a rich honey, and is consequently much sought after by all kinds of insects.
Late in the year towards autumn the common LING or heather (Calluna vulgaris) opens its red blooms.
Most of us will agree with Wordsworth, who bitterly resented the growing practice of obscuring the heather and crag and diversified mountain colouring of the Lake District with the dull, stiff monotone of the pine wood.
They rode out each day, making for the moors of the New Forest, where a horseman can gallop for miles and not leave heather or grass.
Out of Broomy on to the heather again, through Milkham, where the buck had passed a half-dried-up stream, and into Roe.
A couple of balls were lost in the heather and whins.
The heather was on fire eastward, and a thin blue smoke rose against the dawn.
The burning heather had been extinguished, but the level ground towards Ottershaw was blackened as far as one could see, and still giving off vertical streamers of smoke.
The second monster followed the first, and at that the artilleryman began to crawl very cautiously across the hot heather ash towards Horsell.
Then it was as if an invisible yet intensely heated finger were drawn through the heather between me and the Martians, and all along a curving line beyond the sand pits the dark ground smoked and crackled.
Over that, above the blackened heather and ruined buildings that stretched far and wide, stood one as sentinel, while the rest abandoned their vast fighting-machines and descended into the pit.
The paths are edged with heather and thyme and bluebells, and that daintiest of little vetches, the golden yellow, whose blossoms were well named by the devout sisters "Mary's golden shoes.
Here and there were little pine groves in this heath; the pine and the birch being the only trees which can keep any footing against heather when it sets out to usurp a territory, and even they cannot grow large or freely.
Not at all,' said he, as he quietly sate down on a dry bunch of heather and got out his book again.
Walking across the lonely moors, with the dogs for his sole companions, or lying on a far hillside, and tearing twigs of heather with his teeth, he worried his brain for a subject, and all to no purpose.
They walked down through the swampy grass and heather to the banks of the stream; and here he got out his fly-book--a bulged and baggy volume much the worse for wear.
Back we went - back across the heather under the moon, till it was nearly morning, and our poor beasts stumbled on some ruins.
Mithras, God of the Noontide, the heather swims in the heat, Our helmets scorch our foreheads, our sandals burn our feet.
With a little grass and heather binding up what History and the world had crushed, she has said, smilingly: "You creature, you are Time.
But they have greatly decreased in numbers since the planting of so many pines and Northern trees, which kill everything with their shade, and in many places have exterminated the heather and the flowers.
From his earliest days he had loved the lonely coast, with its long stretches of dark heather and sand, and the vast open sea; the lighthouse also interested him greatly.
The room had thus two windows, one of which looked out to sea, while from the other was a view to the northward over the sandy dunes, which were dotted with patches of heather and bent grass.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heather" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
