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  • Cairngorm 3 reference architecture (currently in draft) is to separate applications into distinct functional areas that can be developed independently; in other words a modular architecture, where each functional area is a module. Adobe Blogs
  • Come to visit the wounded, he was dressed for the occasion in plum velvet breeches with stockings to match, immaculate linen, and-to show solidarity with the troops, no doubt-a coat and waistcoat in Cameron tartan, with a subsidiary plaid looped over one shoulder through a cairngorm brooch. Dragonfly in Amber
  • The big news this year is, of course, the opening of Cairngorm's high-speed funicular railway, a facility that, as far as skiers is concerned, is long overdue.
  • It was a rare foray into the limelight for a politician who was press officer for the Cairngorms national park only five years ago. Times, Sunday Times
  • According to Mr E.H. Cunningham-Craig, the mineral occurs in crystals lining cavities in highly-inclined veins of a fine-grained granite running through the coarser granite of the main mass: Shallow pits were formerly dug in the kaolinized granite for sake of the cairngorm and the mineral was also found as pebbles in the bed of the river Avon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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  • The cairngorm brooch he had given her for her birthday was there. Drums of Autumn
  • Turn left here to reach a view indicator showing the Grampians, Cairngorms and Perthshire mountains.
  • Cairngorm is hoping the £15m funicular railway, which opened last year, will help open the mountain to leisure pursuits other than skiing.
  • Ministers face legal action by a local authority for excluding a range of mountains from the Cairngorms National Park.
  • The four adult and two baby animals will travel down from their home in the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland to pull the sledge, laden with toys, around town.
  • The feet of the various species of grouse and owls are capped with silver or gold (in which is set a cairngorm), the toes tipped, or the tarsus banded with silver or gold, to form clasps or brooches. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
  • Alice drew Hamish aside and showed him a silver and cairngorm ring she was wearing on a string around her neck. Death of a Gossip
  • He left because he was alarmed at the environmental damage being done by the 1.2 mile funicular railway being built to within 500 feet of the Cairngorm summit.
  • Under snow, you will see an arctic landscape stretching for miles; north to the Cromdales and Ben Rinnes; east to the distinctive tors on the long spine of Ben Avon; south to the ‘hill in the middle’, Ben Mheadhoin, and west to Cairngorm.
  • With the Cairngorms next on the list for national park status, this walk provides a flavour of the spectacular northern corries without being too arduous an undertaking.
  • A gale howls over the hunchback of Cairngorm, stinging our faces with windblown sleet.
  • Cairngorm, an ancient home to rare birds like eagles, dotterels and ptarmigan, is a world-class mountain that has rightly attracted a welter of international conservation designations.
  • Three people were rescued in blizzard conditions in the Cairngorms. Times, Sunday Times
  • The view is mind-boggling, with a precipitous drop into the defile of the Lairig Ghru, the great pass that splits the Cairngorms, linking Aviemore and Braemar.
  • But for the children it was the arrival of Father Christmas in a sleigh led by Cairngorm reindeer that made the event so special.
  • In repose the Highlander's eye was as clear as a cairngorm and as cold, but when it fell upon John Broom it took a twinkle not quite unlike the twinkle in the one eye of the sailor; and then, to his amazement, this grand creature beckoned to John Broom with a rather dirty hand. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V
  • If you opt for the mountain's new, controversial funicular railway, then you are probably going to find yourself trapped inside a glass visitors' centre, barred from even setting foot on Cairngorm.
  • Dawn, despite its revelation of an ominous pall hanging over the mountains, found us hitching towards Cairngorm.
  • Quartz is colourless when pure but minute amounts of impurities or lattice imperfections give rise to varieties such as amethyst, cairngorm, rose quartz, and smoky quartz.
  • For ten long minutes they stood talking, driving poor Gimblet to the desperate expedient of entering the shop and demanding a closer acquaintance with the cairngorm. The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story
  • A gale howls over the hunchback of Cairngorm, stinging our faces with windblown sleet.
  • On a clear day you can see Ben Nevis in the west and Buchan Ness in the east and beyond Corryhabbie Hill on the opposite side of Glen Rinnes Lochnager and the arc of the Cairngorms form the distant horizon.
  • Toni's and Jos's were conventional longswords, carried in long slender cases that looked like instrument cases, but Paul carried only an elegant sword cane, an antique, ebony with a silver ferrule and a large cairngorm set into the silver ball-handle. Spirits White As Lightning
  • Beyond Corryhabbie Hill on the opposite side of Glen Rinnes, Lochnager and the arc of the Cairngorms form the distant horizon.
  • As well as riding the Cairngorm funicular and the Nevis Range gondola, visitors are being encouraged to pursue a widening variety of warm weather sports.
  • Kevin tells of dropping off a group of climbers for some ice training in the Cairngorms before showing an 80-year-old man his first capercaillie.
  • THE Cairngorms are an outdoor playground like no other. The Sun
  • A friend, he explained, had promised to meet him in that place; and though the shopwoman plainly doubted his veracity, and kept a sharp eye that he did not take to his heels with the cairngorm, she did not go so far as to suggest his removing himself from the zone of temptation. The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story
  • The Aviemore Sled Dog Rally is a two-day trial welcoming more than 200 teams running on a four-mile track around Loch Morlich in Scotland's Cairngorms. The Coming Season
  • It was difficult now to continue the pursuit unobserved: and Gimblet became absorbed in the contemplation of an enormous cairngorm, which was masquerading as an article of personal adornment in the window of the last outlying shop. The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story
  • Scottish weather stations recorded gusts topping 70mph on the Cairngorms and the Nevis range, near Fort William, where skilifts and gondolas were closed. Hurricane Katia: 80mph winds as Britain takes a battering
  • Tourism minister Mike Watson was under pressure last night to scrap restrictions on the new Cairngorm mountain railway which prevent walkers getting on or off the funicular at the top of the mountain.
  • The Pass of Ryvoan in the Cairngorms is both the beginnings and the end of an ancient cattle reivers ' trail.
  • The white lines depict the outlines of the Cairngorm and immediately adjacent granites.
  • It was a rare foray into the limelight for a politician who was press officer for the Cairngorms national park only five years ago. Times, Sunday Times
  • The view is mind-boggling, with a precipitous drop into the defile of the Lairig Ghru, the great pass that splits the Cairngorms, linking Aviemore and Braemar.
  • The four adult and two baby animals will travel down from their home in the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland to pull the sledge, laden with toys, around town.

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