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  • Since her return, Lady has been helping herself to the loch's supplies of perch and trout, even visiting the nearby Tay to catch herself a salmon, tidying up the nest, and waiting.

    Osprey webcam thrills bird lovers as Lady of the Loch awaits mate 2011

  • Then she took another breath and ducked back beneath the surface, where she came face to face with Ishbel, whose features had taken on an unexpected calmness, surrounded by the loch's flotsam and jetsam.

    Fleshmarket Close Rankin, Ian 2004

  • It would be cold in Scotland today and, for an indulgent moment, he thought of Lochaber and imagined the snow lying deep in Glen Scaddle and the ice edging the loch's foreshore, and though he could see the image clearly enough, he could not really imagine what the cold would feel like.

    Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

  • His room over looked the grounds at the back of his home; he spent ten minutes there with Bobby, and stood listening to the wind in the trees and the soft lapping of the water at the loch's edge, and once again he wished that Rosie were with him.

    A Kind Of Magic Neels, Betty 1991

  • The car drew up on the brow of a long and gently sloping incline, which the road followed until it disappeared in a turn at the village at the loch's end.

    The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land Ralph Connor 1898

  • (Ceilidh) in the little cottages that fringed the loch's side, or dotted the heather-clad slopes.

    Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Ralph Connor 1898

  • If Mr. Martin was conscious of any great desire to view the little falls at the loch's end, his face most successfully dissembled any such feeling, but to the little falls he must go as the schoolmaster quietly possessed himself of him and led him away, while Miss Cameron, with never a thought of either of them, passed up the broad path into the kirkyard.

    Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Ralph Connor 1898

  • It is full of the silver light of dawn among the hills, of the music of the loch's dark, slow waves among the reeds, of the scent of the heather, and the wet tresses of the birch.

    Letters on Literature Andrew Lang 1878

  • Ranger Gordon Harper made the discovery while clearing rhododendron bushes on the loch's shore.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • This morning couldn't have been further from those distant days (well I'm old for one thing) - it was misty and below freezing, the island in the middle of the loch hidden by mist's gray curtain; occasionally peeking around its veil to show me the vague outline of a denuded winter tree as I circuited the loch's shore.

    British Blogs wholly RUDE 2010

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