The Aird and Beauly districts, some of the straths and several of the glens are fertile.
The great straths or valleys are in the north and east, the chief among them being Strathfarrar, Strathglass and Strathnairn, and the heads of Strathearn and Strathspey.
The long straths were once cultivated, and every patch of arable land had its group of cottages full of children.
Canada and the United States are infinitely the richer for the tough, strong, fearless, honest men that were dispersed from these lonely strathsto make new homes across the sea.
Who that has footed o'er these firm-knit paths But lauds the men whose strenuous axe and spade Drove roads through the wild glens and hilly straths Under the generalship of tireless Wade!
I am not going to shock my Highland friends by saying it was a good thing for the country that Donald, with the remnant of his plaids and claymores, had to retreat to the misty straths and islands of the west.
It is not well enough known that for years the authorities have been pouring into a few of the islands and straths of the North and West a great number of maimed, consumptive, and mentally defective children.
There were straths or valleys of such exceeding beauty that they gladdened the eye to behold.
I had brought thither my notions of a valley taken from the narrow winding and infertile straths of Scotland, capable of feeding only a few scores of inhabitants.
Inver-Mudal, Clebrig, Ben Loyal, the straths and woods around looked to him small and confined on this quiet morning.
In two hours' time the straths were all astir with preparations for the march.
He of whom I speak was the son of Ian McIan Alltnalee, but was known throughout the home straths and the countries beyond as Sheumas Dhu, Black James, or, to render the subtler meaning implied in this instance, James the Dark One.
It was with joy that the sons of Usna saw once more the house of their childhood, and with still greater joy that they found the people of the neighbouring glens and straths still loyal to them.
So, secretly, he sent a swift messenger across the hills and straths to the dun of Lir.
I want to see once more the green, green straths of Scotland--the green straths with a haze of bluebells over them!
It extends amongst the most remote and unfrequented parts of the country, consisting chiefly of hills of heather and rock, peopled only in a few straths and glens.
These are divided into three straths or glens, and live in a strath called Amatnatua, another strath called Greenyard, and in Glencalvie.
But to what purpose would it be carried on the wings of the wind to the once happy straths and glens of Sutherland?
Dirk nor sword against the tartan, but the tartan against all else, and the Gaels' target fending the hill-land and the juicy straths from the pock-pitted little black men.
As you get your colonisation roads pushed and the dykes along the Fraser River built, you will have a larger available acreage, for there are quiet straths and valleys hidden away among the rich forests which would provide comfortable farms.
Where o'er his red straths Gulban soars, Were haunts well loved by savage boars, And fine were the knolls on the blue mountain's face, Where oft for King Fionn resounded the chase.
These straths are numerous in Scotland, and constitute the great productive centres of the mountain sections.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "straths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
