The name glen plaid was derived from the valley of glen Urquhart in Inverness-shire, Scotland. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Even in the daytime the glen was a solitary place. From Wordnik.com. [Foes] Reference
In the eastern quarter of the glen was the House of the Morning. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference
= A wide open valley, distinguished from a glen, which is narrow. From Wordnik.com. [Lady of the Lake] Reference
The glen was a huge stage, and at any moment the players might appear on it. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies] Reference
A few minutes later the glen was awake with the sounds of shots and screams. From Wordnik.com. [An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls] Reference
A glen is the deep and narrow valley of a small stream, a strath the broader one of a river. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Lake] Reference
We drove up this glen, which is glen Muich, to the loch which terminates it, about six miles off. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.] Reference
They were in what he supposed was called a glen, or maybe a meadow; he wasn't sure of the proper term. From Wordnik.com. [Villains by Necessity]
The glen is a pass between two vast ridges of mountains covered with wood, which have a very noble effect. From Wordnik.com. [A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779] Reference
The glen was a sort of oasis even then, and there were more bushes and trees than ever I had seen before in one place. From Wordnik.com. [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference
At the very head of the glen was a natural barrier of rock, with a few steep steps leading on to a kind of plateau at the top. From Wordnik.com. [A harum-scarum schoolgirl] Reference
On the left of the front in the narrower portion of the glen was the village; on the right, a confined view of richly wooded fields. From Wordnik.com. [English Men of Letters: Crabbe] Reference
Here were no standardized patios, but little marble aprons that were as much a part of the over-all architecture as a glen is a part of. From Wordnik.com. [The Servant Problem] Reference
Every piney glen is ringing. From Wordnik.com. [The Watchman and Other Poems] Reference
In a few miles further we found ourselves in a kind of glen where water bubbled up from the ground below. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
It says the prefix "glen" is associated with many single-malt scotches and people might think that glen Breton was a Scottish product. From Wordnik.com. [Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories] Reference
The glen was the property of Buller's. From Wordnik.com. [A harum-scarum schoolgirl] Reference
"We've been down yonder in the glen," said Tom, sternly. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
At some glen in Dublin and next thing you know, A weird and a wonderful show. From Wordnik.com. [Decemberists' Meloy Plays Live at 'BPP'] Reference
We are going over to the glen to-morrow to dine, and in fact spend the day there. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
But their steeds are running downhill, towards a glen filled with thorns and rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Baker: Bernanke to World: "We're Going to Fiddle While Rome Burns"] Reference
Out of a dark glen a spark of light suddenly shot -- almost like a rocket in swiftness. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
He rose up then and without even looking about him, started directly away from the glen. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
Paulinus is said to have baptised many thousands in the river glen; and at another place. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
(Boyds, Maryland) @ jfdulac: downed trees all along capital view between forest glen and plyers mill. From Wordnik.com. [Severe thunderstorms sliding south] Reference
One day, penetrating a little farther than usual, we came to a rich little glen, running down to the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
But Max only answers hurriedly, that having killed a stag in the Wolf's-glen, he is obliged to return there. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
They bear the scars and contortions of many a hard-fought battle with the storms that often sweep the narrow glen. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
After being for a few miles such as we have tried to describe it, the glen becomes narrower, and the scenery rougher. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
It was a wild hollow, with great beech trees, and a noisy stream chaffing in a rocky bed down the middle of the glen. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
About a month after this, all the maidens were met together for a dance in a glen among the hills, and among them was. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
Here was the great grazing for young beasts in the summer, away here in the glen, but now only stillness and desolation. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
The moment we enter the narrow part of the glen, though the sun is still pretty far up in the heavens, we are in twilight gloom. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
We enter the glen from which this stream flows by a narrow rocky pass, through which the trees of the Mar forest struggle upwards. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
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