Scaur

In our own times, Andy Goldsworthy has used pulverised red stone from the river bed of Scaur Water in Scotland to produce his pooling Source of Scaur; and in her delicate abstracts the young artist Karla Black experiments by mixing water with Vaseline, toothpaste and hair gel.

Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011

Wordsworth's situation is really a beautiful one; and Nab Scaur behind his house rises with a grand, protecting air.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

= _In crimen uocare_ was a normal idiom: compare Cic _Scaur_ (e) 'custos ille rei publicae proditionis est _in crimen uocatus_' and _Fam_ V xvii 2 'ego te, P. Sitti, et primis temporibus illis quibus in inuidiam absens et _in crimen uocabare_ defendi'.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

By noon the gaunt Scaur looked down on such a gathering as it had never seen.

Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900

Beyond the Silver Lea the gaunt Scaur raised its craggy peak, and the Pass, trending along its side, shone white in the sunshine.

Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900

The Silver Mere was soon ice-veiled; the Wastrel rolled sullenly down below Kenmuir, its creeks and quiet places tented with jagged sheets of ice; while the Scaur and Muir Pike raised hoary heads against the frosty blue.

Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900

The smoke from Kenmuir was winding slowly up against the sky; to her right the low gray cottages of the village cuddled in the bosom of the Dale; far away over the Marches towered the gaunt Scaur; before her rolled the swelling slopes of the

Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900

"We saw two deer on the Scaur, and a woodchuck near the house; I thought they'd jump out of the flivver ----"

The Flaming Jewel 1899

There's more good water -- two miles of it -- to the east, and all it needed was a fish-ladder around Scaur Falls.

The Flaming Jewel 1899

Then I did what you suggested -- I crossed the forest diagonally toward The Scaur, zig-zagged north, turned by the rock hog-back south of

The Flaming Jewel 1899