Australian operatic soprano (born in 1926)

Usage examples of sutherland.

The environment, with its surface layer of sphagnum under which lie thick deposits of peat, is so conducive to birdlife that Loch Fleet and the Dornoch Firth account for most of the more than five thousand birds that winter in the county of Sutherland.

The son of a Tweeddale shepherd who had emigrated years before to a cheviot farm in Sutherland, he was in every line and feature the Lowlander, and his speech had still the broad intonation of the Borders.

There were rumors that Sutherland had offered them more than the others under the table, and that made things worse.

Raleigh, North Carolina, have found in their genealogical research that Boog designed all the churches and manses built in Sutherland and Easter Ross between 1760 and 1804.

Sutherland hired him as club professional, greenkeeper, and clubmaker a year later.

The large front room in which we sat had those big windows that houses with a view should have, and the walls were filled with paintings and prints - landscapes, antique political cartoons, a 1654 map of Sutherland, a famous old print of Dornoch, a painting of the Dornoch Bookshop, done by Cyril Reed in 1999, which was given to Richard when he sold the shop.

They pushed their outposts also as far as Sutherland and Beaufort West in the south.

The kings shortly announced that between the earls and the most powerful clansMacKay, Sutherland, and MacKensie to the north, Cameron, Campbell, Chattan, Gordon, and Drummond to the souththe brutalized Highlands now had been scoured virtually clean of the bloodthirsty heretics who called themselves Balderites.

Hornblower's imagination was hard at work trying to calculate, on quite insufficient data, the rate of drift he could expect and the possible distance the Sutherland would be able to tow the dismasted three-decker in the time granted.

The privateers had come up into the wind again, and were working to windward directly astern of the Sutherland.

In all likelihood, the Earl's Cross - a stone pillar in that open field - is a boundary marker, but it has the coat of arms of the Earls of Sutherland on one side and that of the town of Dornoch on the other side.

Rebus wondered which luxury hotel would be the base for their drink, and was stunned, perhaps even disappointed, when Byars named the Sutherland Bar, one of Rebus's own watering holes.

He was at the rear of the cave, and Sutherland was astounded to see him kneeling next to his golf ball in a shallow pit.

The Sutherland came round, heeling over with the wind abeam and a trifle more canvas than was safe.

From the top of Ben Bhraggie, at the base of the Mannie, the infamous monument to the first Duke of Sutherland, you can see the villages of Brora, Golspie, and Dornoch, where some families forced from the hills of the Highlands were sent to live.