Willie Calder had settled at Eyemouth as a maker of fishing nets, and he had made more out of twine than ever we were like to do out of the whin-bushes and sand-links of West Inch.

The desultory crackling of the whin-pods in the afternoon sun usurped the ear.

She loves you at West Inch, and she loves me on the braeside; and in her devil's heart she cares a whin-blossom for neither of us.

An' whin pay day comes, all y'er hard earnin's goes to keep the wolf from the door.

There we found good verdure, and some curious whin-rocks, or collections of stones like the ruins of the foundations of old buildings.