tarns

• “And all the little pools on the mountain, the "tarns," as Becky and Tiza called them, filled up, and the rain made the mountain itself so wet that it was like one big bog all over.”

  Milly and Olly

• “Ignore a track off to the right on the western side of the 'tarns'.”

  Whitehaven News headlines

• “Ever so slowly the murky light began to illuminate the horizon, marking out high altitude tarns and the last remaining vestiges of once mighty glaciers.”

  The Huffington Post: Ben Colclough: Mount Kenya: 5,000 m, Mice, Buffalo and Evil Eyes

• “My only regret was that having traced the stunning Chogoria route down past tarns and dramatic vertical gorges from the perfect vantage point on the peak, I was heading down the quicker and less dramatic Naro Moru route.”

  The Huffington Post: Ben Colclough: Mount Kenya -- Is This the Most Beautiful Mountain in Africa?

• “So I repeat Bill's prayer for all these little tarns of the Rhinogydd – "Long may they remain, unexploited, tranquil and remote, for the spirit of man needs such retreats" – and descend to the estuary shores.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Harlech

• “The early sun laid a pink glow over the snow, the mountains, the lochs and the tarns.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Small Death in the Great Glen

• “Three double tarns, fifteen tarns, eighteen silver tarsks, twenty-seven copper tarsks, and one hundred and five tarsk-bits, " said Lecchio.”

  Fictionaut: Cinnamon Roll

• “It is only that two days ago, in the morning, " said Chino, -in Pseudopolis, a sum of three double tarns, fifteen tarns, eighteen silver tarsks, twenty-seven copper tarsks, and one hundred and five tarsk-bits was stolen from the vintner,”

  Fictionaut: Cinnamon Roll

• “After some days of sport and recreation at the fair, we may then, if we wish, from the fairgrounds themselves, take tarns to Port Kar, an expensive proposition to be sure, but one which your resources will doubtless prove sufficient to fund.”

  Fictionaut: Cinnamon Roll

• “This, of course, is not strictly true, not in a world where most goods can be carried on the back of a man, not in a world where there are tarns.”

  Fictionaut: Cinnamon Roll

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