Ythan

Ythan Brae, and the clear shallow brook that ran down from their rocky pastures, through the swamp to Beaver River, they called the Ythan Burn because the familiar names were pleasant on their lips and in their ears in a strange land; but it was a long time before it seemed like home to them.

David Fleming's Forgiveness 1859

Bæda calls it Ythan ceaster, and in his time it was the seat of a monastery founded by St. Cedd; but the whole place has long since been swept away by an inundation of the Blackwater.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

And, Davie, the loss of Ythan even wouldna mean that to grandfather.

David Fleming's Forgiveness 1859

The Ythan burn rippled softly through it, and with

David Fleming's Forgiveness 1859

The younger children were not yet considered to be beyond such teaching as they had at the Scott school-house, so that there had been little coming and going to the village, and all the talk that had been indulged in there as to their affairs had hurt no one at Ythan.

David Fleming's Forgiveness 1859

But they were never weary of the theme, and sometimes went so far as to plan what it would be best to do should they have to leave Ythan.

David Fleming's Forgiveness 1859

One night there came to Ythan a stranger, who introduced himself as Ira Hemmenway, an American, sole agent in Canada for the celebrated Eureka mowing-machine, and he

David Fleming's Forgiveness 1859

He asked nothing better for his own share of profit than a chance to show what he could do with it on some of the smooth fields of Ythan.

David Fleming's Forgiveness 1859

The machine was brought to Ythan that night, and when Mr Fleming came out in the morning operations had long been commenced in Mr Hemmenway's best style, and Davie was occupying his place on the high seat of the machine, and driving "the team" steadily round the great square, which was growing beautifully less at every turn.

David Fleming's Forgiveness 1859

He sat down on a seat by the door, and leaned his chin on the hand that rested on his staff, and looked away over Ythan fields to the hills beyond.

David Fleming's Forgiveness 1859