Cluden

Then suddenly you come to the promontory stitched on to the mainland with great silver stitches of rivers, the Cluden and the Nith; and there are old earthworks, fallen into ruin, which guard the Abbey as the skeletons of watch-dogs might lie guarding a dead master.

The Heather-Moon 1889

Irma was given to wear -- an old tartan of my grandmother's Highland Mary days when she was a shepherdess by the banks of Cluden, a severe gown designed on strictly architectural principles by the unabashed shears of

The Dew of Their Youth 1887

This guide, Glendinning, had become acquainted with Black at a time when the latter resided in Lanarkshire, and, as he had just said, was unacquainted with the region through which they now travelled beyond the river Cluden.

Hunted and Harried 1859

The poor steed fell on the rocks below and broke his neck, but the rider was shot into the deep dark pool round which the Cluden whirled in foam-flecked eddies.

Hunted and Harried 1859

"Are you well acquainted with this man Black?" asked the leader of the party as they emerged from the thick belt of trees and shrubs by which the Cluden was shaded, and continued their journey on the more open ground beyond.

Hunted and Harried 1859

As they retired from the scene the windows of heaven were opened, and the rain, which had been restrained all day, came down in torrents, and sent the Cairn and Cluden red and roaring to the sea.

Hunted and Harried 1859

On his right an open glade revealed to him the dark gorge through which the Cluden thundered.

Hunted and Harried 1859

But I'm in a diffeeculty noo, sir, for ye ken I'm no acquaint wi 'this country nae farer than the Cluden ford, an' here we hae come to

Hunted and Harried 1859

On his left hand and behind him lay the rich belt of woodland that marked the courses of the rivers Cluden and Cairn.

Hunted and Harried 1859

"Ay, sir, the Cluden rins jist ayont the turn o 'the road there," replied the man.

Hunted and Harried 1859