Holms had slept soundly during the greater part of this disturbance, and only woke as the knocking became more furious.
Snipson still continued my greatest tormentor, and had it not have been for him I should not have led so hard a life as I did, for Holms was often very kind, and gave me hints as to what I ought to do under various circumstances.
I consequently looked onHolms as a great friend, and should probably have passed my half-year tolerably had not a circumstance happened which considerably affected my comfort and deprived me of the society and protection of Holms.
I was wondering how I was possibly to wake at five, when I heard a knock at the door, and on Holms calling, "Come in!
After a few minutes' conversation, both Holms and Snipson agreed it couldn't be helped, and we all went to sleep.
In order, therefore, that he might work of a night, he asked Holmsif he would allow him to keep up lights.
I turned over in my mind how I should introduce myself to Holms when he came in, and at length decided I would say, "Mr Holms, I believe!
At every parade--and there were about six per day--Snipson and Holms had to be brushed, and I was responsible if they were in the least dirty.
Holms exacted very little fagging from me; he merely required to be brushed and his things kept tidy in his cupboard, so I was mainly occupied with Snipson.
Holms now came in, and, thinking I would at once make myself useful, I placed a basin for him near Snipson's.
A bugle now sounded, which caused both Holms and Snipson to hurry on their belts and prepare for parade, for this bugle was "the warning" that was sounded five minutes before parade.
Looking from Ellisland eastward across the river, "a pure stream running there over the purest gravel," you see the rich holms and noble woods of Dalswinton.
A great change it must have been to pass from the pleasant holms and broomy banks of the Nith at Ellisland to a town home in the Wee Vennel of Dumfries.
I by no means admit your apology, however ingeniously and artfully stated, for not visiting the bonny holms of Yarrow, and certainly will not rest till I have prevailed upon you to compare the ideal with the real stream.
It is there a beautiful river, with its green banks and flat holms scattered over with trees.
Out beyond the Holms the whaling ships lay at anchor, the Blue Peter flying at each forepeak, and between them and the town many boats were passing to and fro.
Long may ye float upon these floods serene; Yours be these holms untrodden, still, and green, Whose leafy shades fence off the blustering gale, Where breathes in peace the lily of the vale.
The flat holms at low tide is an extensive sheet of mud, excepting one deep channel.
The flat and steep-holms are seen from this neighbourhood: the former has its light-house.
Oh green, said I, are Yarrow Holms And sweet is 'Yarrow flowing!
I Lemuel Lyon of Woodstock Inlisted under Captain David holms of Woodstock in newingLand For this present Cannody Expordition[1]--I Received of Captain Holms £2.
So, reluctantly, I must leave the little hundred-year-old girl keeping her sheep on the green holms of Cluden, and tell about father and his wonderful influence.
The adversary himself stood waiting their pleasure with the most unconcerned air, whistling "The Green Holms o' Linton," and stamping his feet on the ground to keep himself warm.
I saw the thin smoke curling up from the little village of Lyne, and Lyne Kirk standing on its whin-covered brae, and the bonnyholms of Lyne Water, where I had often taken great baskets of trout.
I thought of golden afternoons in the woods of Dawyck, or the holms of Lyne, of how the yellow light used to make the pools glow, and the humming of bees was mingled with the cry of snipe and the song of linnet.
No; I'll see the bonnyholms o' Netherby nae mair, nor the saft moonlight fa'in on the Cheviot Fells.
The country thereabouts is not very wild, and there are many cotter houses set about the holms and dotted among the knowes.
Thus my father, William Gordon of Earlstoun, rode away through these sweet holms and winding paths south toward the Duchrae.
Besides, Donald had been a good friend to me, and was the only one of our company that had ever been on the bonny holms of Earlstoun.
And at last even Westerha' turned his bridle rein, and rode away from off the bonny holms of Shieldhill, for the victory was to the bairns.
Then I remembered what (it was reported) he had said on the Holms of Kirkmahoe when he preached there.
But the others did not stand to be done (small blame to them), and soon all three were running what they could over the level holms of the Ken.
I mind it as it were yesterday, for the dales and holms were pranked out with white hawthorn and broad gowans, and by our woodland hiding-places little frail wildflowers grew, nodding at us as we lay and held our breath.
But my Galloway sheltie, being nimble on its feet, took me bravely over the moss-hags, carrying me lightly and willingly as if I had been hare-coursing on the green holms of the Ken.
The Holms probably had a car; but it was not in sight.
Jack looked questioningly at the Holms for permission to stage his act.
Only the two holms broke the line of water to the north and east up channel.
In such sage counsels and confidences the evening, fraught with such eventful consequences to the household of The Holms and to the hero of our little story, passed away.
The old house at The Holms seemed very lone and desolate, now that its fair mistress had departed.
During the remainder of the winter the domestic history of the household at The Holms was unmarked by any incidents.
And all the rocky knolls that we see so firmly united, can they be only holms and skerries parted by the rolling waves?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "holms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
