I wad rejoice frae day to day, As blithe as a young bridegroom; For dearer than palaces to me Is the Muir o' Gorse an' Broom!
I wish I were far awa' Frae their grandeur an' their gloom, Where the freeborn lintie sings its sang On the Muir o' Gorse an' Broom.
Present-day glaciers, like the Muir Glacier in Alaska, can be seen transporting boulders and drift just as this great prehistoric ice-sheet must have done.
John Muir said that the western juniper lives 2,000 years, and that the tree is never uprooted by wind.
John Muir believed that the singleleaf pinon's annual nut yield surpassed California's yield of wheat.
Behind their course the English fells In deepening blue retire; Till soon before them boldly swells The muir of dun Redswire.
They passed the muir of berries blae, The stone cross on the lee; They reached the green, the bonny brae, Beneath the birchen tree.
From Smith's the company seems to have proceeded in a body to a meeting of the Royal Society, of which all were members except Muir and Rogers himself.
What is the fairest flower, tell me, That grows on muiror dale?
When thou from hence away art paste, Everie nighte and alle, To Whinny-muir thou comest at laste, And Christe receive thye saule.
The primrose is the fairest flower, That springs on muir or dale; The mavis is the sweetest bird Next to the nightingale; And yellow gowd's the finest thing, That king or queen can wale.
From Whinny-muir when thou mayst passe, Everie nighte and alle, To Brigg o' Dread thou comest at last, And Christe receive thye saule.
Muir was telegraphed for, and a hurried conference was held in the office of a famous criminal lawyer.
Muir said the shock had done it,--he had said that a shock would do it, all along.
O'er the muir amang the heather, O'er the muir amang the heather; The bonniest lass that e'er I saw I met ae morn amang the heather.
We now steered for the Muir Glacier and arrived at the front on the east side the evening of the third, and camped on the end of the moraine, where there was a small stream.
In 1879 John Muirwent to Alaska for the first time.
The lower summits about the Muir Glacier, like this one, the first that I climbed, are richly adorned and enlivened with flowers, though they make but a faint show in general views.
At Port Townsend I met Mr. Loomis, who had agreed to go with me as far as the Muir Glacier.
I had a fine view of the top of the mountain-mass which forms the boundary wall of the upper portion of the inlet on the west side, and of several glaciers, tributary to the first of the eastern tributaries of the main Muir Glacier.
The front wall of the Muir Glacier is about two and a half or three miles wide.
Auroras Glossary of Words in the Chinook Jargon Preface Forty years ago John Muir wrote to a friend; "I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer.
We passed through crowds of bergs at the mouth of the bay, though, owing to wind and tide, there were but few at the front of Muir Glacier.
Upon this book of Alaska travels, all but finished before his unforeseen departure, John Muirexpended the last months of his life.
I think I hae her Ower the muiramang the heather, All their clan shall never get her.
Mind that we've o'er the lonesome muirto gang yet.
And what brings my bairns so late across the muir the nicht?
I hear you are having very full meetings at theMuir Foot; times of refreshing, I hope, and sincere milk of the word.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muir" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
