And so when life is dull, Or when my heart is full Because coy dreams have frowned, I wander up the rills To stones and tarns and hills,-- I go there to be crowned.
We may also mention that this Duck breeds in some numbers near most of the tarns and pools of the moorlands from the Peak district northwards.
Its favourite haunts are the clear tarns surrounded with rushes and sphagnum on the moors, at no great distance from the sea.
It is true that she knew the fells and dales, the tarns and meres of her native country, as well as the oldest shepherd, who had spent his long life among them.
No one ever saw them again among the tarnsand meres, dancing by moonlight.
There, too, are tarns hidden in dark recesses and grottoes.
And in some few favored spots, dark grottoes and murky tarns together.
Tarns deep and still where legends grow and strange stories are whispered.
It was during one of my lonely journeyings, amid a far distant region of mountain locked within mountain, and sad rivers and melancholy tarns writhing or sleeping within all, that I chanced upon a certain rivulet and island.
To the west of the Macgillicuddy's Reeks, in a part of the country but little visited, is Lough Coomacullen, one of the most wonderfully beautiful mountain tarns I have ever seen.
Hundreds of these lakes and tarns rest in this broken topography.
Many are smalltarns with rocky and utterly wild surroundings.
The glacier lakes and wild tarns of this Park are one of its delights.
It may be remarked that we are now in the region of tarns and pikes, and the derivation of the former word, if not strictly correct, is not unpoetical, for it is said to mean "a tear.
The river Rothay, however, does not rely entirely upon this immortalised brook, but it can fairly reckon upon what can be spared from the tarns when the other gills fail in their shrunken currents.
One tarns in for four hours, and t'other two keep the watch, one a-steering for two hours and the other relieving him arterwards.
There was no good a-leaving her to pine away on the beach, so he tarns to and puts her up to auction.
If it is hot, you may bathe in the chill waters of those tarnsthat lie bare to the eye of heaven in the hollows of the hills--tarns with names of beauty and waters of such crystal purity as Killarney knows not.
Mrs. Avery was trying to speak and could not, and it was Rachel Tarnswho came to her assistance.
Then the parlor door opened to let in Rachel Tarns and the "all muffled up" girl who had been in the sleigh with Maud.
Rachel Tarns lent me a few, long ago, when we were at home in New York, before the British came.
This is getting to be a thieves' harbor," remarked Rachel Tarns to a group of which she was the centre.
They were driven away, and hardly had the jingling of their bells died out up the road, before Rachel Tarns came and put an arm around Guert.
I wish my mother were here, and Rachel Tarns with her.
The huge fireplace, before which Mrs. Ten Eyck and Rachel Tarns began at once to prepare breakfast for their hungry friends, had an iron bar crossing it, a few feet up.
Rachel Tarns and I'll cook for you while you talk.
Up-na-tan's greatest interest appeared to cling to the forts and to the cannon in them, but he answered Rachel Tarns quite clearly concerning the conditions of the American soldiers held as prisoners.
At first it collects in the tarns which fill the hollows of the mountain plateaux, but these, overflowing, soon send their surplus water by certain channels away over the cliffs.
On reaching the Circus next morning, the 8th, there was only mud and slime, and we had to go so slowly on, until we reached the Gorge of Tarns very late, reaching the depot still later.
We were now in full view of the range, with the Gorge of Tarns not more than five miles away.
Brenta' is a local word in the Sarca valley for a shallow vessel used for soup in cottages: thence it is applied to the stagnant pools or tarns common in the dolomite glens.
Tarns are found in some of the vales, and are numerous upon the mountains.
The mountain Tarns can only be recommended to the notice of the inquisitive traveller who has time to spare.
Here is some great sweep of rolling country, perhaps a Highland moor: the little tarns on it are grey and cold, the vegetation is gloomy and dark, dreariness is over all the scene, because there is a great pall of cloud drawn beneath the blue.
All the tarns that looked black and wicked are now infantile in their innocent blue and sunny gladness, and every dimple in the heights shows, and all the heather burns with the sunshine that falls upon it.
After leaving Pompolona Huts, the path goes through country less thickly wooded, with occasionally wide open spaces, and little tarns of placid brown water.
Then the track leads through brown tufts of snow grass, while almost at the summit you again find tarns of quiet brown water, in whose depths snowy mountains are reflected.
A few rocks will be found round the remarkable tarns of Llyndulyn and Melynllyn, on the north-east side of the mountain, and on the west side of Llyn Eigiau.
As there are three or four tarnson Snowdon called Llyn Glas, so the name of Cwm Glas appears to have been confusingly popular.
But your newspapers make fun of me and my title--and I might as well cut away to Dankmere Tarns and let 'em pick my carcass clean.
Every paper had broken out into glaring scare-heads announcing the recent despoiling of Dankmere Tarns and the venture into trade of Algernon Cecil Clarence Fayre, tenth Earl of Dankmere.
Some little mountain tarns are objects of a visit by those who spend a few days at Aulus, ascending to them on the backs of mules.
These are very elevated mountain tarns lying almost in the region of snow.
There are several mountain tarns more or less accessible from Bagnères.
The undertaking was difficult, as work was possible there for only three months in the summer; all the rest of the year the basin in which they lie is buried in snow, and some of the tarns remain hard frozen.
Above the Lac d’Estom in a wild chaotic cirque are the tarns that feed it; one of these retains its coat of ice almost all the year through.
Other tarns are the Lac de Peyrelade, lying in a cirque under the Pic du Midi, also the Lac d’Isaby.
But the second class of visitors are such as desire to climb the Vignemale, to ascend to the highest tarns above Estom; at the least to see the Lac de Gaube.
There are more mountain tarns here than elsewhere, and some of these the largest in the Pyrenees.
In about a minute Mrs. Tarns reappeared at the head of the stairs.
Mrs. Tarns was the most faithful and capable old person that was ever born.
VII Going downstairs, Louis found Mrs. Tarns standing in the back part of the lobby between the parlour door and the kitchen; obviously she had stationed herself there in order to keep watch on the messenger from the "Three Tuns.
Mrs. Tarns hesitated an instant, and then raised the gas.
I doubt back door's bolted on th' inside," said Mrs. Tarnswith deep humility.
Mrs. Tarns with swiftness darted up the steps and inserted a large, fat, wet hand between the raised knocker and its bed.
Mrs. Tarns pulled the gate towards herself and, crushed behind it, curtsied to Thomas Batchgrew.
Mrs. Tarnslighted a benzolene hand-lamp at the gas, and silently left the bedroom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tarns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
