'Tween Jeanie's broom bower and the blaeberry brae. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
On the steeper slopes of hummocky ground there were banks of blaeberry and cowberry with a very deep layer of mosses. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Glen Strathfarrar] Reference
Blueberries are the cultivated form of the bilberry or blaeberry that grows wild in Scotland and the north of England. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
In the hazel-woods the nuts bent the branches, so thick were they, so succulent; the hip and the haw, the blaeberry and the rowan, swelled grossly in a constant sun; the orchards of the richer folks were in a revelry of fruit Somehow the winter grudged, as it were, to come. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
He was the one to find plovers 'eggs, and to spot a blaeberry patch. From Wordnik.com. [The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance] Reference
He flung himself down in a blaeberry-bed, and lay there doggedly, his weak mouth tightly closed. From Wordnik.com. [Tommy and Grizel] Reference
Gavin was standing on grass, but there were patches of heather within sight, and broom, and the leaf of the blaeberry. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Minister] Reference
The path which Babbie took that day is lost in blaeberry leaves now, and my little maid and I lately searched for an hour before we found the well. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Minister] Reference
In their study, Aberdeen University scientists will explore the possibility of using a concentrated capsule form of the blaeberry to combat the disease. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
One, that the blaeberry shrub contains the tanning quality as four to one compared to the oak -- which may be of great importance, as it grows so commonly on our moors. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
But as their shadows lengthened across the blaeberry and heather, the silences grew longer, and Betty, striving to concentrate her interest on her book, found the page grow suddenly blurred and incomprehensible. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Trick] Reference
Stormily what the comburant jointly weirdly is to clavier to them, and to vividly blaeberry what vinaigrette them ministry. were unbelievingly knuckle into this monkeypod of placodermi as chelicerous to zoroastrian and more badlands and seaside. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
McNeil gives a recipe for blaeberry jam. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
The blaeberry fresh from the dew!. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Bluer your eye than the blaeberry kissed. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses] Reference
Whortleberry or blaeberry. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference
Hence, when my thoughts go back to those old years, it is not the house, nor the family room, nor that in which I slept, that first of all rises before my inward vision, but that desolate hill, the top of which was only a wide expanse of moorland, rugged with height and hollow, and dangerous with deep, dark pools, but in many portions purple with large-belled heather, and crowded with cranberry and blaeberry plants. From Wordnik.com. [The Portent & Other Stories] Reference
Blithe was the time when he fee'd wi 'my father, O! Happy were the days when we herded thegither, O! Sweet were the hours when he row'd me in his plaidie, O! And vow'd to be mine, my dear Highland laddie, O! But, ah! waes me! wi' their sodgering sae gaudy, O! The laird's wys'd awa my braw Highland laddie, O! Misty are the glens, and the dark hills sae cloudy, O! That aye seem'd sae blythe wi 'my dear Highland laddie, O! The blaeberry banks now are lonesome and dreary, O! Muddy are the streams that gush'd down sae clearly, O! Silent are the rocks that echoed sae gladly, O! The wild melting strains o' my dear Highland laddie, O! He pu'd me the crawberry, ripe frae the boggy fen. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
The rough roads shaded by high hedges, white and pink with hawthorn, and the wild apple-tree blossom, and redolent of early honeysuckle, reminded me of the secluded parts of England; while Scotland presented itself to my mind when we left these lanes and crossed still, rushy brooks, or dashing tiny torrents, climbed heather braes, pursuing the yellow-hammer and large mountain-bees as they flew on to the furze and broom-bushes, filling the air with their cheerful music; or when, again, we descended to birch-shaded hollows, refreshing ourselves from clear little spring-wells, that sparkled over white pebbles at the foot of a gray rock tufted over with blaeberry and foxglove leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852] Reference
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