Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun etc. See
highland , etc.
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Examples
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Where in deep purple hue, the hieland hills we view
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A gallant caserne it was — the best and roomiest that I had hitherto seen — rather cold and windy, it is true, especially in the winter, but commanding a noble prospect of a range of distant hills, which I was told were ‘the hieland hills,’ and of a broad arm of the sea, which I heard somebody say was the Firth of Forth.
Lavengro 2004
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He rolled him in a hieland plaid, which covered him but sparely, and slept beneath a bush o 'broom,
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Years later, Duncan and his son are in a hieland brigade in the French and Indian War and are marching toward a fort with a
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When he gied the word, hieland foot was never slow and hieland bluid was never laggin '.
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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A gallant caserne it was -- the best and roomiest that I had hitherto seen -- rather cold and windy, it is true, especially in the winter, but commanding a noble prospect of a range of distant hills, which I was told were "the hieland hills," and of a broad arm of the sea, which I heard somebody say was the Firth of Forth.
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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A gallant caserne it was -- the best and roomiest that I had hitherto seen -- rather cold and windy, it is true, especially in the winter, but commanding a noble prospect of a range of distant hills, which I was told were "the hieland hills," and of a broad arm of the sea, which I heard somebody say was the Firth of Forth.
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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A gallant caserne it was -- the best and roomiest that I had hitherto seen -- rather cold and windy, it is true, especially in the winter, but commanding a noble prospect of a range of distant hills, which I was told were "the hieland hills," and of a broad arm of the sea, which I heard somebody say was the Firth of Forth.
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842
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A gallant caserne it was -- the best and roomiest that I had hitherto seen -- rather cold and windy, it is true, especially in the winter, but commanding a noble prospect of a range of distant hills, which I was told were 'the hieland hills,' and of a broad arm of the sea, which I heard somebody say was the Firth of Forth.
Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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I wad fain hope the hieland hills of our location inland are mair pleasant-lookin 'than this. "
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