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  • large tracts of young heather are burned again and again, often by runaway fires, to bring the land to grass and kill the heather. In this the grazing...
    527 bytes (6,723 words) - 14:28, 6 September 2015
  • laid between them baith. The grass was low by Duriesdyke,  The high heather was red; And between the grass and the high heather,  He's tane her maidenhead...
    339 bytes (509 words) - 05:54, 20 April 2022
  • purple, dull gold and scarlet, showed where the heather, the gorse and the rowan bloomed. The grass was studded with harebells and the pines grew fresh...
    3 KB (536 words) - 10:12, 5 July 2018
  • showery weather, Forget the wet, tempestuous skies,      And look upon the heather. Oh, fairyland, fairyland!      It sparkles, lives, and dances; By every...
    2 KB (290 words) - 16:09, 8 July 2022
  • and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; But oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating! III. I'll put your basket...
    365 bytes (127 words) - 07:35, 26 February 2024
  • your hand, And talk of a houseen To hold you and me, The scent of the heather, The gorse on the lea. Yet, bridegroom of mine, You are waiting afar, Past...
    403 bytes (136 words) - 15:01, 28 June 2024
  • quite sociable among themselves. Their food consists of small shrubs, heather grass and small plants. They are strictly herbivorous. The tail of a "Boomer"...
    272 bytes (950 words) - 21:30, 31 August 2019
  • heather grows, I 'd kiss you, and I 'd hold you close,   I would not let you pass! Here, by my side, you 'd watch with me Cloud shadows on the grass....
    260 bytes (140 words) - 18:12, 17 May 2024
  • moths which were fluttering among the heather, undismayed by the showery day. We had to cross two wild heather-clad hills before we reached the Ring-Ouzels'...
    739 bytes (1,364 words) - 22:37, 6 January 2021
  • overhanging clumps the yellow-billed twite, the "heather lintie," made its nest, often using the feathery cotton-grass for a cosy lining; from the oozy mud the...
    322 bytes (1,920 words) - 22:12, 21 September 2018
  • gi'e my love, &c. My daddie sent me to the hill, To pu' my minnie some heather, And drive it in your fill, Ye're welcome to the leather. O gi'e my love...
    446 bytes (203 words) - 15:27, 19 August 2017
  • flavour to Welsh and Highland mutton, but sheep seldom crop heather while the mountain grasses and rushes are sweet and accessible. Ling has been suggested...
    275 bytes (1,145 words) - 19:02, 15 December 2019
  • upon his knees, and crawled slowly over the grass. Hours seemed to elapse before the black patch of heather spread crisp and dry beneath his hands. Breathing...
    9 KB (1,629 words) - 06:45, 3 March 2011
  • drawing             In the morning light.       Now it's 'Yoick!' among the heather,             And it's 'Yoick!' across the clover,       And it's 'To him...
    7 KB (523 words) - 04:27, 31 December 2020
  • they topped the hill, and raced together Over an open stretch of herb and heather Exposed. And instantly the whole sky burned With fury against them; and...
    297 bytes (389 words) - 19:22, 13 April 2012
  • the Heather: The Moor 53992Kidnapped — The Flight in the Heather: The MoorW. B. HoleRobert Louis Stevenson   ​ CHAPTER XXII. THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE...
    151 bytes (3,014 words) - 12:15, 12 October 2022
  • and contained two eggs; the second was a shallow depression amongst some heather, 4 in. diameter by 1 in. deep, and also contained two eggs. One of these...
    680 bytes (3,957 words) - 12:33, 27 July 2022
  • ground and lined with a scanty layer of grass, heather, etc., is usually placed on the sunny side of a tuft of heather, and preference as regards its site...
    448 bytes (11,115 words) - 14:24, 6 September 2015
  • islands each about a yard square or less, and every one of them was red with heather. I was back on the Bog of Allen again after many years, and it was ​just...
    311 bytes (1,827 words) - 12:54, 22 December 2017
  • was moistened—sprigs and faded bells of heather, young ruddy shoots of whortleberry, mosses, lichens, grasses, rushes, boulders, trees. The day rose grey...
    293 bytes (2,939 words) - 00:06, 26 April 2024
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