A gunshot in these narrow glens would reverberate like a cannon.

Their camp had been pitched just at the outskirts of the Indian village, but the snake dance was to take place in a rocky glen some distance away from the pueblo and so Uncle John instructed Wampus to remain and guard their outfit, as the Moki are notorious thieves.

Aikieside is in the Pease Dean, a magnificent wooded glen, crossed a little lower down by a famous bridge which carries the old post road from Edinburgh to Berwick over the Pease Burn at a height of nearly one hundred and thirty feet.

Slowly we toiled on up the picturesque little glen for nearly a mile and a half.

The smoke of their fires rose out of lonely glens, as they collected the fruit of trees known only to themselves.

In a romantic glen near his house, he chanced to find Beattie with pencil and paper in his hand; and, on questioning him, discovered that he was engaged in the composition of a poem.

But at last, in a marshy glen, I found the fresh slot of a great stag.

Slowly we toiled on up the picturesque little glen for nearly a mile and a half.

Many of the Highlanders had retired for the winter to their native glens, and had not yet rejoined the standard.

The Laughing killer of the woodside glens.

Therefore we often found ourselves alone tramping across the wide open moorland, or along those delightful glens of the Nithsdale, glorious in the autumn tints of their luxurious foliage.

Away go the hounds at score through tangled cover, their merry peal ringing from brake and brier, clashing against the rocks, moaning musically away through distant glens aloft.

Our road turned off to the right, and commenced ascending a long, dry glen between mountains which grew more sterile the further we went.

Agatha loved to roam through these shady glens, and often would she stand upon the margin of the little stream, and, gazing down, fancy that she saw a beautiful little angel in the pure waters.

" By this time we had come to a place where a fair-sized burn issued from a shallow glen in the savannah.

Below us lay a little plain, wedged in between two mountains, and breaking off on one side into a steep glen.

[20] and grating wain To flat-roofed towns, that touch the water's bound, Or lurk in woody sunless glens profound, Or, from the bending rocks, obtrusive cling, 85

I shall be glad to lead so fair a party from our cold valley into the sunny glens of Italy, for, if the truth must be spoken, nature has placed us on the wrong side of the mountain for our comfort, though we have our advantage over those who live even in Turin and Milan, in matters of greater importance.

The hills, covered with woods of a richness and even gorgeous beauty of foliage, shut out this lovely glen completely from the world.

The time shall come when I, perhaps, may tread Your lowly glens, o'erhung with spreading broom, Or o'er your stretching heaths by fancy led

Aikieside is in the Pease Dean, a magnificent wooded glen, crossed a little lower down by a famous bridge which carries the old post road from Edinburgh to Berwick over the Pease Burn at a height of nearly one hundred and thirty feet.

The yellow trail could be seen twisting along the flat, empty glen.

Miles of fragrant ceanothus and manzanita bushes bloom beneath them, and lily gardens and meadows, and damp, ferny glens in endless variety of fragrance and color, compelling the admiration of every observer.

I think it must be the dreariest glen in Scotland.

"What a gernin, glowerin, sneerin, deevilitch leuk can a tod gie when hee's keepit at bay just afore he slinks off," exclaimed the poet, as Reynard was stealing away; but yonder they go before the wind, down the sweeping, outstretched glen, like smoke in a blast.