haggs

The sigh of the waste moorlands, where in the haggs the wild fowl were nestling and the adders slept, came down over the well-pastured braes to her.

The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

--- What is the tane but a waefu 'bunch o' cauldrife professors and ministers, that sate bien and warm when the persecuted remnant were warstling wi 'hunger, and cauld, and fear of death, and danger of fire and sword upon wet brae-sides, peat-haggs, and flow-mosses, and that now creep out of their holes, like bluebottle flees in a blink of sunshine, to take the pu'pits and places of better folk

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

How muckle better I hae thought mysell than them that lay saft, fed sweet, and drank deep, when I was in the moss-haggs and moors, wi precious

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

How muckle better I hae thought mysell than them that lay saft, fed sweet, and drank deep, when I was in the moss-haggs and moors, wi 'precious Donald Cameron, and worthy

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

How muckle better I hae thought mysell than them that lay saft, fed sweet, and drank deep, when I was in the moss-haggs and moors, wi 'precious Donald Cameron, and worthy

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

As to my cousin Sophia, I can't imagine her to be such a simpleton as to have the least scruple on such an account, or to conceive any harm in punishing one of these haggs for the many mischiefs they bring upon families by their tragi-comic passions; for which I think it is a pity they are not punishable by law.

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730

How muckle better I hae thought mysell than them that lay saft, fed sweet, and drank deep, when I was in the moss-haggs and moors, wi’ precious Donald Cameron, and worthy Mr. Blackadder, called Guess-again; and how proud I was

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Sophia, I can’t imagine her to be such a simpleton as to have the least scruple on such an account, or to conceive any harm in punishing one of these haggs for the many mischiefs they bring upon families by their tragi-comic passions; for which I think it is a pity they are not punishable by law.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004