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Example sentences for "linn"

Lexicographically close words:
linkages; linked; linking; linkmen; links; linnen; linnet; linnets; linney; linning
  1. See where the stream out ower the linn Deep headlong foamin' pours, There let us gang and stray amang The bloomin' hawthorn bowers.

  2. Let me in, for loud the linn Is roaring o'er the warlock craigie.

  3. This linn is caused by the river rushing through a narrow channel in the rocks over into a pool very deep, and (according to local tradition) unfathomable.

  4. About five miles up is the Linn of Muich--linns and waterfalls are the peculiar glory of Deeside, I need scarcely say.

  5. At Linn of Dee there is now a handsome white granite bridge, which was opened by the Queen as long ago as the year 1857.

  6. Nothing can be more striking than the appearance of this linn from its bottom.

  7. An awsome place," answered the blind woman, "as ever living creature took refuge in; they ca it the Black Linn of Linklater.

  8. As the morning began to appear on the mountains, a gentle knock was heard at the door of the humble apartment in which Morton slept, and a girlish treble voice asked him, from without, "If he wad please gang to the Linn or the folk raise?

  9. The distance from one Linn to the other may be half a mile or more, along the same ell-wide walk.

  10. The waterfall Cora Linn {36c} is composed of two falls, with a sloping space, which appears to be about twenty yards between, but is much more.

  11. He pointed to a glen or linn on Hermitage Water, and to a light which flitted before us, appearing and disappearing at intervals.

  12. All at once, I came to the brow of a precipice, from which my faithful monitor warned me to retreat; and while in the act of so doing, I thought I heard human voices in the linn beneath.

  13. He had gone to the cave at the Linn to fetch the minister to marry us: but he had also devised a means to help us back to England, and it was for this end that he had brought us to the place where we were.

  14. Behind the table I saw my friend of the cave at the Linn standing with a look of rapture on his face.

  15. When night came I accompanied him down the course of the linn and on to the high road.

  16. Rope of linn bark--The old Cherokee still do most of their tying and packing with ropes twisted from the inner bark of trees.

  17. He made a long rope of linn bark, just as the Cherokee still do, with loops in it for his feet, and had the people let him down from the top of the cliff at a time when he knew that the old birds were away.

  18. The linn or basswood (Tilia) is believed never to be struck by lightning, and the hunter caught in one of the frequent thunderstorms of the southern mountains always seeks its shelter.

  19. Chewed linn bark is also applied to the bite, perhaps from the supposed occult connection between the snake and the thunder, as this tree is said to be immune from the lightning stroke.

  20. Linn and basswood--The ancient Tuscarora believed that no tree but black gum was immune from lightning, which, they declared, would run round the tree a great many times seeking in vain to effect an entrance.

  21. Stevens was elected president of the First National Bank at Marion, Linn county.

  22. Linn of Missouri, from whom one of the principal counties of the State of Oregon derives its name.

  23. In neither the Linn resolution nor in the Linn bill was any difference made between American citizens and British subjects, or other aliens as to the right to take land.

  24. The Linn bill was largely instrumental in causing the early immigrations to Oregon.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "linn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cascade; cataract; cistern; dam; dike; fall; fishpond; force; lagoon; plash; pond; pool; puddle; ravine; reservoir; sump; tank; waterfall; well