scaur
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Out over cairn and moss, Out over scrog and scaur, He ran as runs the clansman That bears the cross of war.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Ane's oot o' Edinborough, Wi' the Beuk an' Gown; An' ane's cam frae Cambridge; An' ane frae scaur an' down: An' Deil tak the hindmaist!
From The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches by Riley, James Whitcomb
We are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon
Each cliff and scaur of the narrow gorge flung back the ringing sound till the sharp reverberations stirred the whole defile.
From Round About the Carpathians by Crosse, Andrew F.
The meadows rocked as they clomb the scaur; The pines re-echo for evermore The sound of the host of Kelpie men; But the windflowers died on Bareau Fen.
From Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea by Carman, Bliss
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