| 单词 | purple heather |
| 例句 | Off the train, Aberdeen and its surroundings offer historic castles set in fields of purple heather, in pine woods and along the dramatic coastline. 52 Places to Go in 2019 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z A 50-year-old man was mountain biking in the North Yorkshire Moors, a national park in England known for its vast expanses of woodland and purple heather. Cases of tick-borne illnesses are on the rise. Some experts believe climate change is the cause 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Depending on timing, you may see blooming purple heather and yellow Oregon stonecrop, scarlet paintbrush and fireweed. Waterfalls now, wildflowers later: 8 hikes for this spring and summer 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z After a walk through yellow gorse and purple heather, my wife reasonably suggested driving to a beach: After all, Ilsington is less than 15 miles from the English Channel as the crow flies. A Driving Tour of Devon, England—on Perilously Narrow Roads 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z “It looks like the most innocent, idyllic scene,” Mr. Ridge said as he drove his car down a winding road that cut through craggy hills splashed with purple heather. As Pope Visits Ireland, Scars of Sex Abuse ‘Worse Than the I.R.A.’ 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z A reporter from the Melbourne Argos visited the Chickerell camp, describing it as "an ideal place with warm sea breezes and slopes lined with purple heather that lay between the camp and the sea". WW1 Anzacs who went to the seaside 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Skye's water supply is fed from the burns that run through the springy, purple heather. Skye stays dry as the rain reigns 2012-07-20T13:17:33Z My men, however, strode on through the scorching air, with as firm a step as though they were on a Highland range with the purple heather at their feet. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z It was a lovely September afternoon, the sun streamed down on the rich purple heather, where Esgair, playing with her boy, sat beside a small rivulet close to the walls of the rising castle. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z Beyond is a wide stretch of purple heather, then a strip of yellow and crimson bents, dotted with the white cotton-flower. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z Of all the Scotch regiments it has tried the hardest to keep its ranks filled with Scotsmen, 'limbs bred in the purple heather.' Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z But day lingers long on the hill-tops, among the steel-grey rocks, among boulders that stand boldly out from the dark background like blocks of snow, and among patches of purple heather. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Out from the fighting list: Home where the purple heather Blooms in the Highland mist. By Trench and Trail in Song and Story 2011-09-24T02:00:15.120Z His place is in the centre of the Deeside Highlands, and, oh, the hills are high, and the purple heather and crimson heath, surrounded by dark pine forests, are a sight to see in autumn. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z I am wading among crimson heath and purple heather, where the crowberry and cranberry grow in patches of green. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z It was rarely that I was abroad later than two in the morning, and my first business was to wade out thigh-deep into the purple heather. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z Scene: A Highland mountain, clad almost to the summit in purple heather. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Thekla says God sends the flowers into the world as twins; contrasting with each other just as we did,—the dark-eyed violets with the fair primroses; golden gorse, and purple heather. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z I. Across the purple heather The winds of God blow sweet. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z And as Revyngton sped onwards towards the rolling expanse of purple heather, he saw the solitary figure of his benefactor waving encouragingly towards the distant and invisible goal. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z O the hills of purple heather, And the skies so warm and gray! The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z The mountains that rise inland from the castle are either wholly green, or patched with purple heather. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z The drive across the moorlands was charming, such sweeps of purple heather, with blue mountain distance. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z It is, indeed, a table fit for such a celebration—a rock plateau with sheer escarpments of grey granite dropping away from it, and a close cover of purple heather for a cloth. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z He liked Highland cattle standing besides a well, with a lot of purple heather about; or a snowy landscape with sheep in the foreground and the sun setting redly behind a hill. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z Bella walked meditatively through the cool green paths, and emerged at intervals on to wide, waste spaces where the purple heather grew thickly. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z From this sylvan God's-acre a path climbed upward to the moor, and passed onward for some little distance until it was obliterated by the purple heather. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z Sweeping around this valley as a protecting wall are rolling hills, whose bare summits have their sombre treeless austerity clothed by a mantle of purple heather. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Among the Hampshire moors, covered with sheets of purple heather and dark forests of Scotch firs, stands a grand old house built of red brick with stone facings. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History Wild rose bushes and juniper cling to the hillside here and there, and then the heather away up on the top;—all over the whole flat top nothing but purple heather. What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself One solitary patch of verdure marked the place where the rising spring had fertilised the land; but around this patch of green the ground was rich only in purple heather. Under False Pretences A Novel So he sighed twice, and then walked straight ahead as before, up the beach and over a flat grassy plain, covered with yellow poppies and gorse bushes and purple heather. All the Way to Fairyland Fairy Stories Hills of richest green, diversified with purple heather; a back-ground of wild bog and mountain; blue sea; and great banks of cloud shepherded over the heights by the mighty winds. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland In the crevices of these miniature precipices purple heather and golden gorse have set them here and there, while the silver lichens have clothed the scarred surfaces of rock with a tender grace. The Cornish Riviera Grayness reigned everywhere—in the sky, on the hillside, and on the bare moor, no longer made resplendent by the gleaming beauty of the purple heather and fainter flashes of yellow gorse. The New Tenant There are upland moors like deserts across which sweep fierce winds, where the golden broom and the purple heather—flowers of the barren heights—are all that will flourish. Lafayette Other places had broad acres and fine trees, other places had forest land and purple heather, but there was something in those green flats that made them seem peculiarly their own. The Explorer Below her stretched a valley of rich meadowland, of yellow cornfields, and beyond moorland hillside glorious with purple heather and golden gorse. Anna the Adventuress A few framed photographs stood on the big roll-topped desk in one corner, and a bowl of purple heather occupied the flat mahogany top to the tiled stove where an electric radiator glowed. The Long Trick In the distance it lay upon the dark hillside, played upon the deep yellow gorse and purple heather of the moorland, and, further away still, flashed upon a long silver streak of the German Ocean. The New Tenant The girl gets in and they drive away to where the purple heather merges into the violet of the moors! Mufti Three great avenues of them run round a triangle half a mile across, and outside the shade of their black branches the purple heather and waving bracken form a carpet fit for elves and fairies. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Or lie at sunset ’mid the purple heather, Listening the silver music that rings out From the pale mountain bells, swayed by the wind. Poems You could not see the Yarrow and Ettrick, and breathe the caller air and gather the purple heather. Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow It meant something ... the purple hills ... the purple heather.... The Wind Bloweth Cloud shadow, gleaming sunshine, purple heather, yellow ragwort like dusts of gold upon the mountain side, and at his feet the ever-changing sea. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai They were driving over an open heath in its summer carpet-like state of purple heather, dwarf gorse, and bracken. That Stick Many a glorious hour has been won from the tempest by him before whose instructed eye—beyond the gloom that wide around blackened all the purple heather—"far off its coming shone." Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 By the time he gained the moorlands, and looked across its purple heather and yellow gorse, his mind was in a healthier mood than it had been for years. Cobwebs and Cables And so he came back to the peace and pleasure of the glens, the purple heather, and the red berries, the chink of pebbles on the strand. The Wind Bloweth All the world was gray or gray-green, save for a patch of purple heather here and there, like the stain of a new wound. Set in Silver When they reached the top, it bore them across a heathy country, rolling over purple heather, and blue harebells, and delicate ferns, and tall foxgloves crowded with bells purple and white. Cross Purposes and The Shadows Indeed, there would be nothing to prevent an American alien from buying up square miles of purple heather in Scotland, and shutting the inhabitants of these British Isles out of their own inheritance. Post-Prandial Philosophy No longer is their vesture white and virginal; now they bloom as a matron and a queen, gloriously arrayed in a seamless robe of purple heather. Tales of the Ridings He had passed through acres of yellowing gorse, of purple heather and mossy turf, fragrant with the aromatic perfume of sun-baked herbiage. Nobody's Man The country is wild and broken, but in late summer and autumn it is ablaze with yellow gorse and purple heather and the hills are covered with the graceful Scotch firs. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland When the golden gorse and purple heather are in bloom upon the downs it forms a most attractive scene. Pictures in Colour of the Isle of Wight That, in short, their lives were in the power of the "merrie men," whose arrowheads and caps they could alone see peering from behind the tree trunks, and over the bank, amidst the purple heather. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars On our way into Italy we passed through Switzerland, with its high mountains, their snowy peaks lost in the clouds, its rushing torrents, and its deep valleys filled with giant ferns and purple heather. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse The air was sweet and fine, bird sounds came from the purple heather. Foes The surface of the rocks above abounded with golden furze, which in summer, mingled with purple heather, formed a fine contrast. From John O'Groats to Land's End When the golden gorse and purple heather are in bloom it presents a glorious prospect to the vision. Pictures in Colour of the Isle of Wight Alone together we trod the good old earth, flecked with bunches of purple heather and fallen leaves. Over Strand and Field As one moves out of Keighley the country becomes stony; the trees are left behind, and there rises on all sides billow on billow of purple heather. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women He passionately loved the North German plain, with its gloomy moorlands, its purple heather, its endless wheatfields, its kingly forests, its gentle lakes, and its superb sweep of sky and clouds. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle The purple heather was all abloom along the slopes of the hill-sides. In the Days of My Youth All the islands, whether north or south, will have gently rounded backs, clothed in pastures nearly to the crest, with garments of purple heather lying under the sky upon their ridges. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque There was a warm sun shining, a pleasant wind blowing, and the purple heather seemed literally to dance around them. Wife in Name Only It puts me in mind o' the moors at home, wi' the rosy sheen of the dawn on the purple heather, but it's different. Between You and Me Beyond it the downs extend, in almost illimitable ranges ascending to the wild golden gorse, to the purple heather. A Mere Accident The hills, particularly on the English side, are covered with flocks of sheep, and lazy shepherds lay basking in the sun, among the purple heather, with their shaggy black dogs beside them. Views a-foot Inlets of green grass forked into purple heather. Mary Olivier: a Life Beyond rose hills—hill upon hill lit patchily by the sun, so that their contours were a mingling of brilliant purple heather, red-brown bracken, and indigo shadow. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 And at hame, I walk five miles o'er the bonny purple heather and am no sae tired as after I've trudged the single one o'er London brick and stone. Between You and Me How many centuries ago did Christian piety raise this rough image of its hope upon the moors amidst the purple heather and the yellow broom? Two Summers in Guyenne In one ungloved hand, that was brown from the sun, but very beautiful, she held an old parasol, the other played occasionally with a bit of purple heather. The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons But though they can make railways, ivy is beyond them, and the purple heather disdains the soil of the New World. The Englishwoman in America The sunlight was streaming on the purple heather, which was spread like a carpet on both sides of the road. A Peep Behind the Scenes I dare say you have seen upon some dreary moor, or at the foot of some 'scaur' on the hillside, the bleached bones of a sheep, lying white and grim among the purple heather. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Above the forest and the rock is the desert moor, horrible to the peasant, but to the lover of nature beautiful when seen in its dress of purple heather and golden broom. Two Summers in Guyenne Below the bearers had crossed a burn on foot, and were ascending the slope where an open space of deep green was fringed with purple heather. Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush It was covered with gorse, like a series of Oriental carpets dotted with the gold of the broom in bloom, woven with rose heather, and red heather, and purple heather. The Idol of Paris But to-day there is silence; the sunshine lights up the purple heather and the already yellowing fern; the tall and beautiful larches stand graceful in the stillness. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies THE PHEASANT-HEN It all seems to end in leagues of purple heather. Chantecler Play in Four Acts The valley narrowed, and upon its rocky sides was many a patch of purple heather—little gardens for the wild bees, but not for man. Two Summers in Guyenne The purple heather on the brae Was all abloom; by glen and weld The wild birds sang the live-long day, The corn-fields ripened into gold. Lays from the West Ah! for us the merry May Comes no more with golden weather; Fields, and woods, and sunshine gay, Purple skies, and purple heather. The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems The pale purple heather bloom still lies in the bottom of the box. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies As we neared the island of Achill trees were conspicuous by their absence, and purple heather was plentiful. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland And she led him to a tall plane tree, beneath whose shade grew arbutus, and lentisk, and purple heather bushes. Types of Children's Literature The poor thing with the bunch of purple heather can never get away from it. The Rosary When t' purple heather covers t' hills, An' t' hunters, tired and worn, Back through the fairy-haunted glens Unto their homes return. Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Cairnhope is a forked mountain, with a bosom of purple heather and a craggy head. Put Yourself in His Place A white lily was not more pure and stainless than the young girl who sat amid the purple heather, sketching the white, far-off sails. Dora Thorne Gleaming ’mid the purple heather, Downward then it sped, Glancing through the mountain gorges, Like a silver thread, As it quicker fled, Louder music in its flow, Dashing to the Vale below. Legends and Lyrics Part 2 And underfoot was the springy heather, the belled and purple heather... Messer Marco Polo But soon all eyes were turned towards the Virgin Orberosia, who, in the first light of the dawn, clothed in white, advanced over the purple heather. Penguin Island Her last letter, posted in Scotland and delivered here seven days later, is like a breath of the purple heather and brings her vividly to mind. Penelope's Postscripts In Ballyfuchsia, they dance on a flat piece of road under some fir-trees and larches, with stretches of mountain covered with yellow gorse or purple heather, and the quiet lakes lying in the distance. Penelope's Irish Experiences |
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