How To Use Blae In A Sentence
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As for Edith, she rambled at will among the bushes of the nearest ravine, under the faithful guardianship of Chimo, and hurried back to the camp almost every hour, laden with cloudberries, cranberries, blaeberries, and crowberries, which grew in profusion everywhere.
Ungava
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The great red face took a blae colour -- the tongue protruded from his mouth and the eyes stared wildly.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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It comprised mostly subalpine ground with tallish heather, blaeberry, and crowberry, with some patches of short heath.
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Other names in use in Britain are whinberry, because the plant grows among whins; and blaeberry, ‘blae’ being a north country and Scots word for blue.
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But they lookit sae blae, and their hearts were sae wae,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
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And yet the Lord hath sent me to you, and our faithful men about here, crying, Come away to the marriage: Come away, I will renew My contract with you; I will not give you a bill of divorcement, but I will give My Son to you; and your souls that are black and blae, I will make them beautiful.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
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We followed a little, fast-running irrigation channel most of the way up through forest and watched a woman picking myrtles with a device that looked a bit like a comb on the front of a box you would need very close-set teeth to do the same with Scottish blaeberries.
Day 9 – Trient via the Fenetre d’Arpette
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Are ye to eat your meat by the cheeks of a red fire, and think upon this poor sick lad of mine, biting his finger ends on a blae muir for cauld and hunger?
Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
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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.
Hudson Bay
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When he left the cottage, he did not return to the house, but threaded the little forest of pines, climbing the hill till he came out on its bare crown, where nothing grew but heather and blaeberries.
Robert Falconer
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Snell, blae, nirly, and scowthering, are four of these significant vocables; they are all words that carry a shiver with them; and for my part, as I see them aligned before me on the page,
Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
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Other names for them are blaeberries, whinberries and whortleberries.
Times, Sunday Times
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`To tell the truth, I drank too much of the Blaenycwm brand of scrumpy.
GOODBYE CURATE
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The grass thinned and was replaced by mosses and blaeberries.
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They are also called blaeberries, whinberries and whortleberries.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both McKenzie and Gordon want to open up the sport to children from disadvantaged areas and have plans to revitalise a site in Maryhill that has five blaes pitches.
Undefined
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As is well said in these lines of Homer, the gift of beauty is not lightly to be thrown away, that glorious gift which none can bestow save the gods alone — [Greek: outoi hapoblaet erti theon erikuoea dora, ossa ken autoi dosin, ekon douk an tis eloito] .7 7
The Wisdom of Life
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There is neither tree nor bush, the sky is grey, the earth buff, the air blae and windy, and clouds of coarse granitic dust sweep across the prairie and smother the settlement.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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His hose they are blae, and his shoon like the slae,
Song-The Laddie’s dear sel’
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Birch trees grow in extravagant excess, juniper bushes cover the floor and a rich, luxuriant undergrowth of heather, blaeberry and moss gives an impression of timelessness.
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Snell, blae, nirly, and scowthering, are four of these significant vocables; they are all words that carry a shiver with them; and for my part, as I see them aligned before me on the page,
Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
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The closest parallel for the poetic singular cited by _OLD densus_ 3a is Martial IX lxxxvii 1-2 'Septem post calices Opimiani/_denso_ cum iaceam triente [19] blaesus'.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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Gailenga, at Telach-Maine; the buck speaking out of the bodies of the thieves in the territory of Ui-Meith; the travelling of the garron without any guide to Druimmic-Ublae, when he lay down beside the grain of wheat; the chariot, without a charioteer, [going] from Armagh to
The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
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It is such a distinctive and wonderful meat, tasting of heather, and dark as blaeberries.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stormily what the comburant jointly weirdly is to clavier to them, and to vividly blaeberry what vinaigrette them ministry. were unbelievingly knuckle into this monkeypod of placodermi as chelicerous to zoroastrian and more badlands and seaside.
Rational Review
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Blaenavon ironworks opened in 1789 with three blast furnaces fed by local coal.
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In summer there was an interval of half an hour between the lecture and the sermon, "when," says Mr. William Cairns, "there was opportunity for a delightful breathing-time, and the youths who were swift of foot could just reach the bottom of a hill whereon were plenteous blaeberries, and snatch a fearful joy if one could swallow without leaving the tell-tale marks on the lips and tongue.
Principal Cairns
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On the steeper slopes of hummocky ground there were banks of blaeberry and cowberry with a very deep layer of mosses.
Country diary: Glen Strathfarrar
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Roedd 'na nifer o bynciau pwysig, ond cynhennus, o'n blaenau heddiw - a dwi ddim yn credu y byddai gan y rhan fwyaf o ddarllenwyr y blog unrhyw ddiddordeb mewn gwybod y manylion.
Diwrnod digalon - ond dim rhwyg
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From here the path climbed up to the Col de Tricot (2120m) through meadows which must have been spectacular when it was in full flower earlier in the year, but now offered a tasty mid-morning snack of beautifully ripe, sweet, plump blaeberries (or myrtilles as they are in France).
Day 1-Les Houches to Auberge du Truc
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The children were well at night, and found dead in the morning, with a little blood on their noses, and blaes at the roots of their ears; which were obvious symptoms of strangling ....
The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
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In autumn this is one of Britain's finest sights: birch and aspen in golden clouds around the evergreen pines, while on the forest floor heathers still flower among the blaeberries and cowberries.
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His knuckle and collar-bones shone blae through the tight skin.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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As I pressed through the thick underwood, I startled a strange-looking apparition in one of the open spaces beside the gulf, where, as shown by the profusion of plants of _vaccinium_, the blaeberries had greatly abounded in their season.
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
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I say I was vexed for it afterwards; especially as the laddie did not mean to give offence; and as I saw the blae marks of my four fingers along his chaft-blade.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
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Heather is an important winter food while dwarf shrubs such as blaeberry provide shelter for chicks.
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On the steeper slopes of hummocky ground there were banks of blaeberry and cowberry with a very deep layer of mosses.
Country diary: Glen Strathfarrar
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Blaeric and Fen. were nowhere to be seen, so there was no need to talk his way past them to get inside, but as he approached the dirt-streaked steps at the back of the wagon, the foxhead medallion hanging beneath his shirt went icy cold against his chest, then colder still.
Knife of Dreams
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_Snell_, _blae_, _nirly_, and _scowthering_, are four of these significant vocables; they are all words that carry a shiver with them; and for my part as I see them aligned before me on the page, I am persuaded that a big wind comes tearing over the Firth from Burntisland and the northern hills; I think I can hear it howl in the chimney, and as I set my face northwards, feel its smarting kisses on my cheek.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
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It was delight itself to the latter to think of having nothing to do on those glorious hot days but gather blaeberries, or lie on the grass, or bathe in the Glamour and dry themselves in the sun ten times a day.
Alec Forbes of Howglen
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With a diet of heather shoots, wild blaeberries and insects, these small but meaty birds are packed with flavour and are fat-free.
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Among them were prints in valuable 16th and 17th century editions of atlases by Mercator, Speed, Jansson and Blaeu.
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I left my baby lying here to go and gather blaeberries. cho: Ho-van, ho-van gorry o go, gorry o go, gorry o go;
Highland Fairy Lullaby
