The Fians from their sheilings came, With offerings to the god a-flame, And round them thrice they sun-wise went; Then naked-kneed in silence bent Beside the pillar stones ...

But there were trees on Castle Island, and out of the ruins of the castle a comfortable sheiling could be built, and the ground thus freed from the ruins of the Welshman's castle might be cultivated.

For the moment he couldn't see how he was to build a chapela sheiling, perhaps; a chapel was out of the question, he feared.

There was no use saying he didn't know; he never was able to keep a secret from Eliza, and feeling that he must confide in somebody, he told her he was tired of living at home, and was thinking of building a sheiling on the island.

As yet there is no farm-house, scarcely even a sheiling, to "break the silence of this Dell.

Ye may stable your stirks in the sheilings of Dern-cleugh.