And yet, climb up a little among the whins and the pastures behind his home, and turn--and there lies Edinburgh below you, painted like a picture in the haze of smoke and sunshine.
Meanwhile her opponent, that tender-hearted and unconscious ogre, was diligently poking about among the bents and whins for the missing Haskell.
It contained but two chairs and a small table, and from the deep diamond-paned window, you could only see the steep side of a hill, rough withwhins and crags, which sprang sheer upward from the back of the Tower.
There are a great many of these young whins growing under the older bushes.
Of course the whins are passed through a mill first.
The mill crushes thewhins and destroys the prickles.
It was a wild, desolate expanse, covered withwhins and heather, and bordered by a broad, sandy beach.
Whins and thistles are the only bad things that Bonnie Scotland has sent out here.
Whins you cannot clear, unless by toil inadequate to the present value of land.
In some localities in the North there are clearings submerged under whins or sweetbriar, and there are forests of thistles, which march onward and devour all before them.
At the last hole, which calls for a drive and a good full iron-shot, a four is never to be despised, and with that we start off once more between the whins and the beach, and pass pale and trembling again through the fiery zone.
The whins lie in wait for a sliced shot, while on the left is the strong shore of the harbour.
If, however, whins are from their nature a bad hazard, they have nevertheless very distinguished sanction.
Like the egg, the course is good in parts: very good as long as we are among the whins on the hard ground which is the ground of the Common: rather soft and muddy when we are on the meadows lower down.
The ground is for the most part very flat, and there are fir trees and whins scattered here and there.
There are whins in fair profusion, and they play an important part at both the second and third holes.
In ancient days, when the whins were thick and flourishing on the straight road to the hole, the only possible line was away to the left towards the Elysian fields.
They cleared off the whins of the mountain; they drained the bogs.
If I rented a few acres of those wild hills, and rooted out the whins and raised and removed the stones, I would think it unjust to raise the rent on me because of my labor.
In the famine time people getting relief had to travel for the ticket, travel to get the meal, and then go to gatherwhins or heather on the hills to cook it, and the hungry children waiting all the time.
Better," said one in his service, "that the land bear whins than whigs.
The Covenanters were called whigs; the whins were worthless bushes.
The whins crackled, the heather blazed, and the flames overtopped the hovels which they surrounded, and which within an hour became a heap of smouldering ashes.
So an attempt was made to boycott them, and it is even said that Allan Robertson bought up all the lost balls that were found in the whins and destroyed them by fire!
At the lower end of the whins the burn was shallower and the banks low.
The whins were all ablaze and the trees in the belting standing out clear, and the little figures still running with the torches.
They knew of the bank of whins we must struggle through, and relied on their horses' speed to take them round the planting and catch us coming out while the men on foot harried our rear.
Between us and the whins was a burn with steep earthy banks, and too wide and deep to risk horses over.
We had crawled maybe fifty yards, when McKinnon turned his face to me, and the blood was drying on his cheeks and brow where the whins had marked him.
He knew how birds made their nests; he knew how flowers and whins grew out of the ground; but he did not know how rocks grew.
He found some whins in the neighbourhood, and went in amongst them and slept there until the sun was well up the sky.
When at last "the Warrior" came speeding up the hill, warned out of his Sabbath afternoon sleep by the cry that the whins were on fire, he was in no pleasant temper.
In the days of Cleg's youth these were still clad thick withwhins and broom, among which the birds built in the spring, and lovers sat in long converse on little swarded oases.
The whinswithin view burst into blossom; and the morning breeze which dried the dews wafted their fragrance.
First, there would be the walk across the soft, spongy grass--past the whins for the sake of the hot, sunny smell of the blossom.
We lay among the whins and bramble undisturbed till the dusk came on.
We were walking, the seven of us, not in a compact group, but scattered, and at the whins when we rested we sat in ones and twos behind the bushes, with eyes cast anxiously along the shore for sign of any craft that might take us over.
But we could keep up this silence of shame no longer than our running: when we sat among the whins on Leven-side, and took a breath and scrutinised along the coast, for sign of food or ferry, we must be talking of what we had left behind.
After about two years' labours it exhibited an altogether different appearance, and in place of whins and stones there were to be seen heavy crops of barley and turnips.
My heart goes to my throat whenever I think of that ride, for behind every clump of whins one might look to find a wounded clansman hiding from the riders of Cumberland.
From a clump of whins in the gorse the whistle echoed back to us, and presently Captain Macdonald came swinging down to the shore.
THE WHITE GOAT I The white goat stood in a little clearing closed in by a ring of whins on the hillside.
He felt glad he had not left the white goat tethered in the whins on the hill.
No such thing was there; the doorstep descended upon the wayside herbage; around, the black whins and withered heather came close up to the walls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
