muirs

The north side is bounded by wide muirs and inconsiderable hills, which occupy an extent of country from twelve to twenty miles in breadth, and the whole of this space is enclosed as by circumvallation.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

“Is it the same Mr. Mowbray,” said Mr. Tyrrel, “who still holds the estate? — the old gentleman, you know, whom I had some dispute with” — — “About hunting moorfowl upon the Spring-well-head muirs?” said Meg.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

The Hoka waxed eloquent about the bonnie heather o 'the muirs.

Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 1983

Charles II. were justified in shooting the Covenanters on the muirs of Scotland, if they thought his rule was better, on the whole, for

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

Think for one moment, gentlemen, of the annals of which we are so proud -- of the ballads still chanted in the hall and in the hamlet -- of the lonely graves and headstones that are scattered all along the surface of the southern muirs.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

Charles II. were justified in shooting the Covenanters on the muirs of Scotland, if they thought his rule was better, on the whole, for

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

In short, I had got my matters settled, and hame I cam; and the morn awa to the muirs to see what the herds had been about, and I thought I might as weel gie a look to the Tout-hope head, where Jock o’ Dawston and me has the outcast about a march.

Chapter XLV 1917

Yes—there’s thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o’ their bits o’bields, to sleep with the tod and the blackcock in the muirs!

Chapter VIII 1917

When this worthy old sportman went out, last muirfowl season, he supposed it was to be, in Ossian’s phrase, “the last of his fields, ” and expressed an ardent wish to die and be buried in the muirs.

Tam Samson’s Elegy 1909

Our clan was well acquaint wi 'the reivers and lifters o' the muirs, and could crack fine o 'wars and the takin of cattle.

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907