Verdant valley

Usage examples of glen.

Glen, I think Change uses an alembic big enough for a man as part of their process of transformation.

He saw the green cleft in the hills where the Aller came down from its distant wells, and the darker glen of the Rood where bent was exchanged for rock and heather.

Amadan of the Dough, and I have killed Slat Mor, Slat Man, Slat Beag, the Cailliach of the Rocks and her four badachs, the Black Bull of the Brown Woods, the White Wether of the Hill of the Waterfalls, and the Beggarman of the King of Sweden, and before night I will have killed the Silver Cat of the Seven Glens.

They were out on Bear Hill the whole day, beating up the bushes as if for game, scaring old crows out of their ragged nests, and in one dark glen startling a fierce-eyed, growling, bobtailed catamount, who sat spitting and looking all ready to spring at them, on the tall tree where he clung with his claws unsheathed, until a young fellow came up with a gun and shot him dead.

It was pretty country, even in the downpour, when white mists parted and fir-crowned heights looked out for a moment, or we slid down into a deep glen with mossy boulders, lichen-covered stumps, ferny carpet, and damp, balsamy smell of pyramidal cryptomeria, and a tawny torrent dashing through it in gusts of passion.

To feed with kindliest dews its favourite flower, That blooms in mossy banks and darksome glens, Lighting the greenwood with its sunny smile.

As they jogged down the glen Henry Drome engaged Lizzie in conversation.

I had left my husband three years earlier, because his idea of heaven was a house in Glen Cove, Long Island: beautiful, but it seemed a lot of our neighbors were rich and rude and empty-headed, doing the suburban thing and consuming designer drugs daily that poor Rocky Drugsters like Leonard have never even heard of .

Now, no long efter, a great doon-come of snow fell ding on in oor glen.

In this deplorable state of body and mind, was I jogging on towards the Tweed, by the side of the small river called Ellan, when, just at the narrowest part of the glen, whom should I meet full in the face but the very being in all the universe of God would the most gladly have shunned.

And it happened, too, that he was the one person in all the world that Jock would most wish not to hear it, for he was gamekeeper to the Laird of Glen Cairn, and the Laird of Glen Cairn owned all the land for miles and miles about in every direction.

Clive were on their way to the glen, their glen, where the brook known as the Miry Ghyll cascaded over a small falls into a shaded pool.

We chose Glen Kingie, and after a long climb found a torrent that took us down to Glengarry before sunset.

It is a sport in which I have no competitor save the little boys who guddle the stones, for the folk of the glen follow less innocent pursuits.

They had not made any firm promises to Father, but neither had they told hirn that Lizzie was dead set against mining in High Glen.