straths

We passed sandbags in Milnathort (which had featured in the television news), and in Strathardle itself (a short strath, as straths go) there was a “Police Slow” sign followed by 100 yards of streaks of mud on the road.

Jean's Knitting Jean 2009

We had left, if only for a short while, a landscape of seemingly endless sunlit glistening snow and ice that covered the straths, glens and hills.

Country diary: Burghead, Moray 2011

We passed sandbags in Milnathort (which had featured in the television news), and in Strathardle itself (a short strath, as straths go) there was a “Police Slow” sign followed by 100 yards of streaks of mud on the road.

Archive 2009-07-01 Jean 2009

The country, always lonely, seemed now entirely forsaken; and, even in the little straths or valleys which he had occasion to pass or traverse, the hamlets were deserted, and the inhabitants had betaken themselves to woods and caves.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

The Highlanders, from different islands, glens, and straths, eyed each other at a distance with looks of emulation, inquisitive curiosity, or hostile malevolence; but the most astounding part of the assembly, at least to a Lowland ear, was the rival performance of the bagpipers.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

Beyond it was another lava-field, older perhaps than the valleys, for its stones were smoothed, and between them were straths of flat earth, rank with weeds.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

It was these slopes that the crofters commonly used for pasture, below which, in the straths and glens, were their holdings and dwellings.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

Almost the solitary good trait in Lovat's character was the fondness for his Highland home -- a pride in his clan -- a yearning to the last for the mountains, the straths, the burns, now ravaged by the despoiler, and red with the blood of the Frasers.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

They came from their straths and their secluded valleys, wherein there was little intercourse with society in general to tame their native pride, or to weaken the predominant emotion of their hearts, -- their pride in their chieftain.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

And even in Lower Canada there are straths of wonderful fertility.

The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger