What is "cairngorms"

Usage examples of "cairngorms".

They were gay in long cloaks of bright reds and blues and rich in ornaments of heavy gold or cairngorms set in silver brooches.

Smoky cairngorms smouldered baleful as serpents' eyes among the interlocking shapes and whorls.

Huddled miserably in one of the back seats of Francis Raeburn's helicopter, he spent the entire hour and more of the flight northward rehearsing his defenses, while the snow-covered forests of Balmoral rolled away beneath them and the white peaks of the Cairngorms rose ahead.

I'm thinking that it might be profitable to check out that area in the Cairngorms that he kept coming back to.

God knew, whatever was lurking up in the Cairngorms had something larger in mind than simply picking off Freemasons.

The thin neck was encircled by a heavy tore of meteoric iron, its blackness lifted by murky cairngorms and Pictish symbols traced in silver.

He had on occasion accompanied Bonnie Jean high into the Cairngorms, to the lair.

Badenoch being the area east of the Spey and along the Cairngorms foothills.

Well, the Cairngorms were notoriously unforgiving mountains, and in places they were entirely inaccessible.

And immobile in his state of suspended animation in a gluey grave in the Cairngorms lair, he had commenced to dream.

He must somehow be made to climb into the 'unexplored' heights of the Cairngorms, along with B.

The sixteen-year-old twins who, I'm told, died in the Cairngorms some time back.

He knew a vast deal about cairngorms and agates and such-like pretty things, and showed Charles quartz and felspar and red cornelian, and I don't know what else, in the crags on the hillside.