lowland

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The laird of this island makes a great profit yearly of the soland geese taken; as I remember, they told us £130 sterling.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

The origin of the names solan or soland, sulan, sula and haf-sula, which are evidently all closely related, is not so obvious.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

There are verses which contain the names of these birds among the vulgar, two whereof are, 'The scout, the scart, the cattiwake, The soland goose sits on the lake, Yearly in the spring.'

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

It is said that in the Islands of the Orcades, in Scotland, there are trees which bear those barnacles, which dropping off into the water, receive life, and become those birds called soland geese.

From Hudibras by Butler, Samuel

Some call them clakes, and soland geese, and some puffins; others bernacles, because they resemble them.

From Notes and Queries, Number 11, January 12, 1850 by Various