H. Miller

Cited as H. Miller. — 10 quotations

Bleed

A decaying pine of stately size, bleeding amber.

Deposition

The deposition of rough sand and rolled pebbles.

Derne

He at length escaped them by derning himself in a foxearth.

Dibble

The clayey soil around it was dibbled thick at the time by the tiny hoofs of sheep.

Distance

His peculiar art of distancing an object to aggrandize his space.

Lochan

A pond or lochan rather than a lake.

Motty

The motty dust reek raised by the workmen.

Steepen

As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path.

Weather

The organisms . . . seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are imbedded has weathered from around them.

Will

A countryman, telling us what he had seen, remarked that if the conflagration went on, as it was doing, we would [should] have, as our next season's employment, the Old Town of Edinburgh to rebuild.