O’er hilly path and open Strath We’ll wander Scotland thorough, But though so near we will not turn Into the Dale of Yarrow.
He had been a great traveller, in Ireland and elsewhere; but I believe that he had visited no place so beautiful to his eyes as his native home, the strath of Appin under the heathy hills.
We walked downwards a little way, and then crossed over to the same road along which we had travelled from Loch Erne to Callander, being once again at the entrance of Strath Eyer.
We were to go over the mountains from Loch Ketterine, a little below the ferry-house on the same side of the water, descending to Loch Voil, a lake from which issues the stream that flows through Strath Eyer into Loch Lubnaig.
Walked up Strath Eyer, and saw in clear air and sunshine what had been concealed from us when we travelled before in the mist and rain.
Langen, the southern side of the great strath near Lausanne with M.
No doubt corrupted from Strath Tairibh, the Strath of the Bull.
Are you looking afar into the south, The long, wide strath adown?
He might still have a glimpse of the dun deer from time to time; there would still be the dewy mornings by lake and strath and mountain-tarn, with the stumbling on a bit of white heather, and the picking it and wearing it for luck.
But whence came the sound of the wind that seemed to go moaning down the strath towards the purple lake?
It was a brisk and breezy morning; the keen north wind was fortunately behind him; and soon he was swinging along through the desolate solitudes of Strath Terry, his footfall on the road the only sound in the universal stillness.
Its utility was so generally felt, that the demand arose for a second bridge across the river; for there was not another by which it could be crossed for a distance of nearly fifty miles up Strath Spey.
The sweet-scented dusk was soothing to the senses, and there in the narrow glen, with the wide blue strath and the gleam of the river below, it was hard to find the link of reality and easy to credit fairyland.
They passed out of the Gled valley into the narrowerstrath of Avelin, and soon, leaving the meadows behind, went deep into the recesses of woods.
Crianlarich, in Strath Fillan, the harvest Cailleach at, vii.
In the township of Strath of Gairloch; the "pans" have been broken up; they say there were several of them.
Ride through a narrow strath called Kin-loch-ewe, where we first saw the signs of houses and a little cultivation since morning.
Descending the western side of the hill we reach the hamlet of Talladale, at the foot of the Talladale river, which comes from Strath Lungard.
Mr Harvie Brown noted it as "common" at Strath na Sealg in 1884, and Mr O.
Other strolls are to Strath and Lonmor, or to the large sandy beach below the Gairloch Established church.
In another grove in Strathis the Cottage Hospital, founded by Mr Francis H.
As soon as the mountain called Scuir a Mhuilin, to the south of Strath Braan, eastward of Achnasheen, came in sight, he asked me its name.
Over the bridge on the left goes the road to Strath Carron.
Here hill and strath and briny sea; There streams which from the mountains glide, Where pearls abound and otters hide.
Strath or Smithstown is entered, at the back of which there was formerly much bog iron.
From the head of the loch, which the steamer is now nearing, stretches away to the south-east the partly cultivated strath of Kenlochewe, with the farm of Tagan in the foreground.
Ministers there were in the great strath so orderly that they kept their sealing-wax in one drawer and their string in another, while their sermons were arranged under the books of the Bible, and tied with green silk.
But that was not in my thoughts when I came to the top of the last hill dividing our strath from the Black Colonel's.
It would give me no compunction to reign with a hundred or more Fraser Highlanders, in a strath from which the Red Man has to be persuaded away, or driven by force.
So they passed up through the narrow gorge, where the heavy volume of water was dashing down in tawny masses between the rocks, and got into the open country again, where the strath broadened out in a wide expanse of moorland.
On the evening before the appointed raid, even the foresters looked glum; the western hills were ominous and angry, and the wind that came howling down the strath seemed to foretell a storm.
Shall I run down the strath and tell old Robert to hurry back?
They dropped anchor at Loch-Ceannard, when a large party went ashore and proceeded up the Strath to the residence of Mr Mackenzie of Langwell, connected by marriage with the Earl of Cromarty.
William Douglas went into a large oak-ceiled chamber, wide and high, running across the castle from side to side, and with windows that looked every way over the broad and fertile strath of Dee.
The trumpets sounded again, and as their stirring taran-tara rang down the wide strath of Dee, the riders spurred their horses into full career.
In this, as in other Welsh and Gaelic names, the word Strath is a prefix to the name of the adjoining river.
Mr. Akroyd's, in Strath Naver, was almost unlimited, and included nearly all the salmon fishing of the Naver.
Illustration: The Strathof Dalnawillan, FROM THE MOUND POOL.
By heaven, the strath shall be rid of the pack of them before another year is out!
While I have land in it with room for them to stand upon, the strath shall not be rid of them!
The Macruadh cast his mind's and his body's eye too upon the small strip of ground on the west side of the castle-ridge, between it and the tiny tributary of the strath burn which was here the boundary between the lands of the two lairds.
No; I won't leave the strath till I die--and I won't leave it then!
Thence he fared the upper way over fells and woods, above all places where men dwelt, and came out in Strath Helmsdale near the middle of Sutherland.
In the ryegrass field at the top of the Gallowsflat a wandering landrail, elusive and challenging, craiks his homeward way; while from Cample Strath or Closeburn Heights is fitfully wafted to me the warning bark of a farmer's dog.
Presently the old bitch broke cover from another mouth, when the whole pack opened most musically, and away went the jovial party as hard as they could split, their tallyho's making the whole strath ring again.
The flag is fluttering in the distance close to the first tee at the range of an absolutely full shot, and on the very narrowest, most tapering strath imaginable.
In the good old days when our Highland glens and straths were thickly populated, every hill and dale and crag and knoll had its name, and every strath and valley had its traditions.
Traces of agriculture lead us to picture this fine strath as at one time throng with peaceful and busy life.
Reviewing these primitive local churches and churchmen, we see that the general Christianisation of our Strath began about 500 A.
They drained the strath dry to recover the body; and a solitary knoll on the Allan's bank some way below the present village marks the place where they found and buried the remains of fair Queen Helen.
Muthill The vale or strath of the Earn may best and simplest be said to extend from the head of Loch Earn along the course of the River Earn to its junction with the Tay, two and a quarter miles above Newburgh.
No doubt it felt the loss of the Court of the Steward of the Earl Palatine of Strathearn, just as the whole strath felt the want of the sunshine of the Royal favour after the murder of King James I.
In the far east, the Strath seems to be shut off by the Moncrieffe Hill--wooded still, as in the days when it was first named.
But when he turned and looked toward the strath he saw nine men moving away from Màm-Gorm, carrying in their midst a long black box.
During that ensuing winter he was fed and sheltered by Torcall Cameron, or by Murdo the shepherd, or by Alan Gilchrist on Tornideon, the mountain on the north side of Strath Iolair.
XII Week after week went by, changelessly fine, so that in the Strath men began to shake their heads ominously because of the long drought.
When he had first reached the Mairg Water, after his fruitless journey to Inverglas, the village of Strath Iolair, he had thrown himself down among the fern, in the shadow of a boulder overlooking the Kelpie's Pool.
Even in the Strath the people said: "It was willed.
The light was streaming down theStrath as she emerged into the open glade above the Linn.
It is not for me to go into the Strath with news of the dead.
Moreover, what was he to say to Angus Óg, as Anabal's son was called by thestrath folk on account of his beauty and because he was a dreamer and a poet, though but a shepherd of the hills?
Not a gentleman-farmer left from one end of the strath to the other!
Between the Falls and the Strathof Stratherrik," says the Book we were about to quote, "a space of three or four miles, the river Foyers flows through a series of low rocky hills clothed with birch.
The village of Poschiavo in eastern Switzerland, built upon a strath at the head of Lake Poschiavo.
The city of Ithaca, the seat of Cornell University, is built upon a strath at the head of Lake Cayuga, and numberless Scottish and Swiss hamlets have been located upon such fertile plains (Fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strath" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bottom; dell; gap; gill; glen; grove; pass; ravine; trench; trough; vale; valley
