blaeberry
Americannoun
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blaeberries
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of blaeberry
1375–1425; late Middle English (north) blaberie. See blae, berry
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But as their shadows lengthened across the blaeberry and heather, the silences grew longer, and Betty, striving to concentrate her interest on her book, found the page grow suddenly blurred and incomprehensible….
From The Long Trick by Bartimeus
I saw first the pale blue sky through a net of heather, then a big shoulder of hill, and then my own boots placed neatly in a blaeberry bush.
From The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The blaeberry banks now are lonesome and dreary, O!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
He was the one to find plovers' eggs, and to spot a blaeberry patch.
From The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Bluer your eye than the blaeberry kissed On the high mountain's shoulder by sun and by mist; Gentler your eyelids' soft motion, than where The upland grass waves to the breezes of air.
From Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by John Douglas Sutherland Campbell
"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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
To your right, dimly seen, is the roaring Don, beyond it cliffs and braes, covered with forest and fern, heather and blaeberries.
From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Gordon Stables
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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
There you may find shade in summer, and great blaeberries and ripening rowans in the wane of August.
From The Half-Hearted by John Buchan
A clutch of eggs, honey, delicious mast, God has sent it: Sweet apples, red whortleberries, And blaeberries.
From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various
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