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There you may find shade in summer, and great blaeberries and ripening rowans in the wane of August.

From The Half-Hearted by Buchan, John

On its upper table-like surface I found a few patches of moss and lichen, and a slim reddening tuft of the Vaccinium myrtillus, still bearing, late as was the season, its half-dozen blaeberries.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

The island on which we had encamped was a small rocky one, covered with short heathery-looking shrubs, among which we found thousands of blaeberries.

From Hudson Bay by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

"Alert, I seek exactitude of rule, I step and square my shoulders with the squad, But there are blaeberries on old Barrule, And Langness has its heather still—thank God!"

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

I left my bairnie lying here, Lying here, lying here; I left my bairnie lying here, To go and gather blaeberries.

From Rhymes Old and New : collected by M.E.S. Wright by Wright, M. E. S.