I will draw a veil over that descent, but when we got down by Sprinkling Tarn (a small, lonely bit of water) we felt like being put through a wringer.
It's quite time we were at that confounded tarn and I haven't seen a cairn this half hour.
We must go down by Sprinkling Tarn (good name, that) and then by Sty Head Tarn until we get to the Pass.
We passed presently anothertarn of clear blue water, the Lago di Gornigo, hidden away among the hills.
The moon on the edge of the tarn did play; It seemed to laugh as it vanished away In the rolling billows so bright!
We speak often at Glen Tarn of the delightful weeks we spent in your mountain wilds last summer," she added.
The doctor says I gained faster here than anywhere between the two oceans, and we are all to spend six weeks up at Glen Tarn Springs.
Giddings, who would have died for the engineer, waited, every point in the repeating covered, day after day for a Glen Tarn message that Glover expected.
Will you have the car sent back to Glen Tarn in the morning, Mr. Glover?
The Pittsburg party waited at Glen Tarn for Mr. Brock's word to join him.
I left Glen Tarn this afternoon all alone to go to Medicine Bend--papa is there, did you know?
The ruin stands on the Tarn Beck, a few yards below Seathwaite Chapel, and on the other side of the stream.
Seathwaite Chapel itself is not on the Duddon, but on the Tarn Beck.
Perhaps the best is in a line with the head of the tarn and the cairn on the Old Man, and another scarcely, if at all, inferior is nearly opposite a very large stone in the tarn.
Towards the foot of the tarn the gullies are much less severe.
The steep breast above Angle Tarn contains no continuous climb, but there are several good bits in the rocks and gullies which connect the terraces.
The six-inch map would lead the innocent, stranger to imagine that he could ascend from Sprinkling Tarn by a smooth and gradual slope.
Tarn Murry said whin he came down after being blowed up in a powder mill.
He kipt at it till one day he towld me he had a dim 'spicion that Bridget and her big brother Tarn and her dad of the same name, not forgitting Bridget her-silf, weren't as fond of him as they oughter be.
Now, as the brother and sister argued together, they were hurrying along by the edge of the tarn on their way to service at the kirk, for this was Sunday morning, the fifth day after their arrival at the Glen.
Margot took the peppermint, and sucked it with frank enjoyment the while she sat by the tarn reading her letters.
How bewildering these alliances were may be judged from what Mr. Tarn says of Stratonice, the daughter of Antiochus I.
Mr. Tarn has unravelled the tangled political web with singular lucidity.
Not a common soldier in his army," Mr. Tarn says, "could have managed things as badly as the brilliant Pyrrhus.
It is," Mr. Tarn says, "a strange case of historical justice.
Between groans the injured husband profanely unburdened himself: "She go down de tarn Injune house vit dat tarn Injune hunter, Hoots-noo!
This conferred the right of fishing not only in the Gründlsee, but also in the smaller tarn of Toplitz, a mile above it, and in the swift stream which unites them.
The reeds in the tarnare stirred, and there is audible a faint shriek and a ripple of laughter.
I wandered through the woods, down the glen, along the sea-shore, up the side of the tarn and of the marsh, but I could think of nothing.
His face was almost a death's head, but his blue eyes looked out of their great hollow sockets clear as tarn water, and with the smile which Coombe would not have forgotten howsoever long life had dragged out.
And when he had put on the borrowed ring he had drawn her eyes up to the blue tarn of his own.
The sun was sinking; the tarn lay in shadow, blue as steel and glassy as a mirror; now and then a heron struck an evanescent star from the shallows where it splashed.
Barbara's smile grew softer, her strength less assertive, and there was a light in her eyes, which made them look as clear and blue as Swirtle Tarn on a sunny day.
All around the heat shimmered upon rock and grass; the tarn lay white and motionless; Thundergay was wrapped in a haze; not a breath of air stirred the fern fronds.
Swirtle Tarn smoked like a cauldron of boiling water as she threaded its lonely shore.
The shores of the tarn were ringed with sounds, so haunting that they seemed to be unearthly.
She came to the end of the sheep-track, where it joined the Robber's Rake on the far side of the tarn from Ketel's Parlour.
Then the vapours of the tarnrose around, swirling, twirling up to the light of the moon, blotting out their faces.
As she sat in silence, her fingers busy making a withy basket, and her mind active, there came from over the tarn a sudden burst of melody, ethereal as elfin music.
It wound in sun-swept greenness to Thundergay, where Swirtle Tarn glittered like a silver sixpence.
The becks ran dry and Swirtle Tarn shrank till it was little better than a farm-yard puddle.
But the tarn has been drained and its site is now a pasture for sheep.
Soon after Christmas the King chanced to ride by Tarn Wadling[190], in the forest of Inglewood, when he was met by a fierce baron armed with a club, who offered him choice between fighting and ransom.
He seemed to be pleading with Tarn to help him find a resolution for this towering dilemma.
Who was that silver-haired executive, Tarn wondered.
The hills, however much the vale might open, were still tall and bare, with cliffy battlements and here and there a pointed summit; and the Tarn still rattled through the stones with a mountain noise.
A little after, the stream that I was following fell into the Tarn at Pont de Montvert of bloody memory.
This was a pass like that of Killiecrankie; a deep turning gully in the hills, with the Tarn making a wonderful hoarse uproar far below, and craggy summits standing in the sunshine high above.
Was this then the tarn of which he had been forewarned?
I would end you now, if it were not that the fates have written, and it is by the tarn you shall meet your destiny.
The roiling waters of the Tarn of Eternity licks hungrily at the boulders below.
The waters roil and tear at him as though the tarn were a living creature, a beast of prey.
Ah, princess, it is fit we meet here by the Tarn of Eternity.
Only the waters of the Tarn of Eternity can quench those flames.
Of how he knowingly cast himself into the deadly waters of the Tarn of Eternity for her sake.
Down she falls, down, finally to plummet into the cold depths of the Tarn of Eternity.
The once calm tarn was now an ocean of waves and froth, and thunder sound above it.
Quickly, now, for as I forecast, the Tarn of Eternity is quenching the fires of hell, and quenching the very life from me.
And here lie the tangled threads, and the first strange steps on the dark path to the Tarn of Eternity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tarn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cistern; dam; dike; fishpond; lagoon; plash; pond; pool; puddle; reservoir; sump; tank; well
