Definitions
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- noun a lake in central Scotland
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Examples
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Katrine, softer in their features than Loch Achray, though like both, or like the waters which glitter beneath the blue sky of
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We then passed by Loch Achray to Glasgow, where we found James Parker's brother (his father, of the house of Macinroy and Parker, being a wealthy merchant of Glasgow).
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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There are lakes more beauteous than Loch Katrine, softer in their features than Loch Achray, though like both, or like the waters which glitter beneath the blue sky of Italy.
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Turning from Loch Achray we reached an inn with a Gaelic name, which I have forgotten how to spell, and which if I were to spell it, you could not pronounce.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836
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= A village and district southeast of the line of lakes -- Loch Katrine, Loch Achray, and Loch Vennachar -- about which the main action of the poem moves.
Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801
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One of the most tranquil settings, on the shore of Loch Achray, of any church in Britain.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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They were following labourer Allan, who was carrying relatives in another car as they drove to Loch Achray to let their son try out his new fishing rod.
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The descent to Loch Achray was bone dry, fast and beautiful with the Trossachs Hotel looking impossibly picturesque.
PezCyclingNews.com 2008
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