scaur
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The glen terminated at last in a linn and scaur, beyond which it did not appear probable that trouts would ascend.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander
She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They’ll have fleet steeds that follow, quoth young Lochinvar.’”
From Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Carr, Annie Roe
"She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that follow!" quoth young Lochinvar.
From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Everts, Katherine Jewell
List'ning the doors an' winnocks rattle; I think me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And thro' the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, Beneath a scaur!
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
“I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O’ wintry war; Or thro’ the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle, Beneath a scaur.
From Life of Robert Burns by Carlyle, Thomas
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