1350 examples of highlands in sentences

They tower so far above the surrounding highlands, that they seem always to be peering over the intervening ranges, as if holding an everlasting watch over the broad wilderness beneath them.

I knew it, Charley, the first night you spied me at the Highlands dance.

Get some one to write a history of CAESAR for you, or an account of a tour in the Highlands, and then claim the work as your own.

What is it they say about the Highlands?"

Belief in the Evil Eye is still quite common, even among educated people, in the Highlands.

There are several Fian place-names in the Highlands.

What a time of intense delight was that first sail through the Highlands!

Highlands, New York.

He was a topping person in his way, transacted considerable business on his own behalf, and was intrusted by the best farmers in the Highlands, in preference to any other drover in that district.

Martin Conwell, the son, grew to manhood and in 1839 brought a bride to a little farm he had purchased at South Worthington, up in the Hampshire Highlands of the Berkshire Hills in Massachusetts.

Examination with the telescope showed to the signal men, who had established a new station on the Jersey highlands, that these mysterious spheres were balloons; and that the ships were about to dispatch them, was evident from the fact that small pilot-balloons were soon sent up.

In those parts of the Highlands of Scotland where eagles are numerous, and where they commit great ravages among the young lambs, the following methods are used for destroying them:When the nest happens to be in a place situated in the direction of a perpendicular from the edge of a cliff above, a bundle of dry heath or grass inclosing a burning peat is let down into it.

The Jersey cattle are small; but like the pigmy breed of the Scottish Highlands, their flesh is delicate, and their milk and butter rich.

Should you go to Centre-Harbor, As haply you some time may, Sailing up the Winnipisauke, From the hills of Alton Bay, Into the heart of the highlands, Into the north-wind free, Through the rising and vanishing islands, Over the mountain sea, To the little hamlet lying White in its mountain-fold, Asleep by the lake, and dreaming A dream that is never told, And in the Red Hill's shadow

Across the river the bottom stretches out, reaching half a mile back to the highlands.

The SPEAKER, after eulogising the white tall hat, added that although he was glad that they had Sir SQUIRE BANCROFT with them (Hear, hear) he was bound to remark that not infrequently of late he had seen that illustrious histrion wearing in the streets of London a cloth cap more suitable to the golf-links or the Highlands.

"A Chaplain Wanted, for private chapel in the Highlands.

The fashion, which began in the nineteenth century, of going to the Highlands for shooting, popularized in England certain northern habits of feeding, and a morning meal at which game and cold meat appeared was known in England as a "Scotch breakfast."

William G. Brownlow; fighting parson of the southern highlands.

It is not uncommon in the more lonely parts of the Highlands to see a single person so employed.

The History of Rob Roy is sufficiently known; his Grave is near the head of Loch Ketterine, in one of those small Pin-fold-like Burial-grounds, of neglected and desolate appearance, which the Traveller meets with in the Highlands of Scotland.

When we were travelling in Scotland, an invasion was hourly looked for, and one could not but think with some regret of the times when, from the now depopulated Highlands forty or fifty thousand men might have been poured down for the defence of the country, under such leaders as the Marquis of Montrose or the brave man who had so distinguished himself upon the ground where we were standing.

Again, a dead body, among the Australians, is corded up tight, as soon as the breath is out of it, if it is to be buried, or before being exposed on a platform, if that is the custom.[30] Again, in the Highlands second-sight was thus acquired: the would-be seer 'must run a Tedder (tether) of Hair, which bound a corpse to the Bier, about his Middle from end to end,' and then look between his legs till he sees a funeral cross two marches.

In three remote points, we find seer-binding and corpse-binding; but we need to prove that corpses are, or have been, bound at the other points where the seer is tied upin a reindeer skin among the Samoyeds, an elk skin in North America, a bull's hide in the Highlands.

By reference to them it will be seen that the origin of "the highlands" is to be sought on the north shore of the Bay of Chaleurs.

1350 examples of  highlands  in sentences