shealing
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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And there was Neil Roy Vich Roban, and Callum Dubh, and five or six others little worth, with your leave; and Donald knew not how many more might be in the shealing.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
Through the heather he brushed eagerly now, his eyes intent upon the dim summits of the brae from which again he should see the light of the shealing if it was there.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil
"I rarely attempt anything beyond a peasant hut or a shealing."
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
The bodies of the dead in the shealing were consigned to the earth as they lay, the four walls composing a mausoleum where animosity was buried.
From The King's Own by Marryat, Frederick
He shook himself into the present world, and left behind the ashes of their fire and made for the shealing hut, all the way solacing himself with fancy.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil
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