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  • There are Cheviots from the English and Scotch hill country.

    The Story of Wool Sara Ware Bassett 1920

  • The sheep are North Country Cheviots which, along with Blackfaces, are the most common breed on marginal Highland farms.

    Back to the land: from London to sheep farming on Eigg 2011

  • Many thanks for the article on Birdoswald...our limited experience of this period in time is more based up in the Cheviots and the Till plain.

    Birdoswald Roman Fort: dating the post-Roman use of the site Carla 2010

  • Standards and Cross Fell; and if you have not found it, you must turn south, and search the Lake Mountains, down to Scaw Fell and the sea; and then, if you have not found it, you must go northward again by merry Carlisle, and search the Cheviots all across, from

    The Water Babies 2007

  • Cheviots rose before me in frowning majesty; not, indeed, with the sublime variety of rock and cliff which characterizes mountains of the primary class but huge, round-headed, and clothed with a dark robe of russet, gaining, by their extent and desolate appearance, an influence upon the imagination, as a desert district possessing a character of its own.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • Breaths come to him in song of the distant Cheviots and the ring of foraying hoofs.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • In their return through the Cheviots they quarrelled about the division of the great booty they had acquired, and came from words to blows.

    Waverley 2004

  • Then they moved on to taxation and I lost them again, the more so as there were some lowish clouds ahead over the Cheviots and at their request I was flying them below three thousand feet so that they could see the countryside.

    Flying Finish Francis, Dick, 1920- 1966

  • North-east seemed to be the best direction if he wanted exercise; a track led up across the moor in the direction of Bellingham and the Cheviots.

    Ruined City Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

  • We get a view of the Cheviots; and Tweed-mouth passed, we cross the

    Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

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