shieling

• “Our shieling was a good mile lower down the stream than the artist's summer hut.”

  Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure

• “This is a secluded vale, called Killean, which, besides its natural attractions -- and these are many -- is distinguished as one of the few places where the old practice of resorting to the 'shieling' for summer grazing of cattle is still observed.”

  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2

• “gledes of light," and with "shieling" for a pastoral summer station in the hills.”

  The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological

• “Had she but read Euphues, and forgotten that accursed mill and shieling-hill, it is my thought that her converse would be broidered with as many and as choice pearls of compliment, as that of the most rhetorical lady in the court of Feliciana.”

  The Monastery

• “It was a moonlight night, and Montrose, worn out by the fatigues of the day, was laid down to sleep in a miserable shieling.”

  A Legend of Montrose

• “The form of the retiring chief crossed it for an instant, the hurdle was then closed, and the shieling left in darkness.”

  The Fair Maid of Perth

• “A shieling in cop-pingers and porrish soup all days.”

  Finnegans Wake

• “Expect to learn about the workings of a Highland shieling summer grazing in the high mountains, the method for waterproofing boots when going duck shooting in a marsh, castle architecture, battle tactics and strategy.”

  Archive 2006-10-01

• “Switzer pine amid the luxuriant scenes of tropical life, when their thoughts revert to the smoky shieling or to the rock-encompassed”

  Woman on the American Frontier

• “The shieling, as Donald called it, was about a hundred yards past the highest point of the road, where a picket was on the watch.”

  The Yeoman Adventurer

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