scads
Example Sentences
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But among them were new scaurs, still like fresh wounds, with the stones showing the sharpness of late fracture, and no herbage covering the blood-red colour of the sand.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
There is every sign of it upon the scaurs.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
Its windows look straight into the heart of Fairfield, the beautiful semicircular mountain which rears its hollowed front and buttressing scaurs against the north, far above the green floor of the valley.
From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
It's the wanton steed that scaurs at the windlestrae.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
Ghaist! my certie, I shall ghaist them—if they had their heads as muckle on their wark as on their daffing they wad play na sic pliskies—it's the wanton steed that scaurs at the windlestrae.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
