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Example sentences for "corrie"

Lexicographically close words:
correspondingly; corresponds; corrida; corridor; corridors; corriendo; corries; corroborate; corroborated; corroborates
  1. Corrie married the daughter of Mrs. Ellerton, who knew Serampore and Carey well.

  2. Corrie and Dealtry do not seem to have reached the spot in time.

  3. Other glimpses on the way were of a corrie near Dalatangi, and the face of the mountains near Mjofifjord.

  4. There is a vast corrie at the head, which is shelved in a series of steps right down to the flat through which the river meanders.

  5. Almost opposite to our anchorage there was a good example of a small corrie high up above the water of the fjord, but the photograph proved a failure.

  6. The echo of it wailed thrice, with horrible distinctness, in the corrie beyond Cnoc-an-Fhraoch.

  7. From Corrie they can be traced southwards and inland to near the head of Ben Lister Glen.

  8. Corrie which takes its name from a rugged hollow in the hill of Am Binnein (2172 ft.

  9. The lowest group is on the horizon of the Calciferous Sandstone series, being visible at Corrie where it underlies the Corrie limestone, and is traceable southwards beyond Brodick.

  10. At Corrie and the Cock of Arran they rest on Upper Carboniferous strata; in Ben Lister Glen, on the lower limestone group of the Carboniferous Limestone series; and on the west coast they repose on the Old Red Sandstone.

  11. The small development of Upper Carboniferous strata, visible on the shore south of Corrie and in Ben Lister Glen, consists of sandstones, red and mottled clays and purple shales, which yield plant-remains of Upper Carboniferous facies.

  12. Its top commands a wonderful view of the whole alpine scene, and enables you to see the steep silent corrie at the head of the Dubh Loch, and thus complete your survey.

  13. Allt a Choire Dhuibh Mhoir (arlta corrie oo-ie vore), The burn of the great black corrie.

  14. Mullach Coire Mhic Fhearchair (mulloch corrie vik erraquhar), Summit of the corrie of Farquhar's son.

  15. This hollow is called Coire Cheud Cnoc, or "the corrie of a hundred hillocks.

  16. Coire Mhic Cromail (corrie vic krommle), The corrie of the son of Cromail.

  17. Coire an Easain (corrie an easan), Corrie of the little waterfall.

  18. The guard of the Black Corrie Celtic Magazine.

  19. Glen Dochartie, and the Great Black Corrie in Glen Torridon, were the entrances to Gairloch from the south and east.

  20. These streamlets thus deposit a series of conical hummocks of this débris, which gradually cover the ground as the ice retreats, similar to those in the corrie in question.

  21. The exasperated Thorwald attempted to seize him by the neck and shake him, but Corrie flung his jacket in his face, and sprang down the beach like a squirrel.

  22. Next moment Corrie was at her side, and before the savage could seize the child, he leveled the pistol at his head and fired.

  23. Corrie did not smile; he did not betray the smallest symptom of power either to appreciate or to indulge in jocularity at that moment.

  24. Master Corrie indulged in these impertinent remarks while he was stripping off his jacket and shirt.

  25. So saying, Corrie edged his way through the crowd until he could see the windlass.

  26. Corrie laid his hand on her head and stroked her fair hair as he replied: "This is a serious matter, Alice; I must go at once and see your father about it.

  27. Once Mr. Corrie was called hurriedly away while in the act of addressing one of these epistles.

  28. Further remark was cut short by the sudden discharge of the pewter mug, which, however, fell harmlessly on the panel of the closing door as the impertinent Corrie sped forth to call the settlement to arms.

  29. While this was being done, the youthful Corrie was in the fore part of the schooner whispering eagerly to Alice and Poopy.

  30. Bumpus, pointing to the weapon which Corrie had stuck ostentatiously into his belt.

  31. This remark was accompanied with an exceedingly huge wink, full of deep meaning, which Corrie found it convenient not to notice, as he observed gravely: "Ah!

  32. And the youthful Corrie shook his head with much gravity, as he surveyed his rotund little legs complacently.

  33. But it didn't work, you see; for we lost no time in getting up to the Corrie Bhreag, and there he was, sure enough.

  34. He was lying in the corrie into which he and Ted had vainly tried to get that first night of the storm, and as he lay he could watch the sun tilt from its high glory in the heavens, to touch the world in the west then disappear.

  35. The path grew more and more hopeless, until after scrambling down an almost precipitous corrie they found themselves brought up on a jutting spur, by a thirty feet drop as the only onward way.

  36. Yes, a rifle had cracked twice in the late afternoon in the direction of a corrie that the great stag favoured, and, doubtless, a bullet had found its billet.

  37. And our picking was bad indeed, for instead of taking what we learned again was a drove-road through to Tynree, we stood more to the right and plunged into what after all turned out to be nothing better than a corrie among the hills.

  38. We had thought first of pushing across the glen, over the river, through Corrie Ghuibhasan, and into the Black Mount; but the journey in a night like what was now fallen was not to be attempted.

  39. They have been on Corrie for four hundred years and they were holding sheep-farms elsewhere even earlier.

  40. The 4th of December has dawned, and still Hans lies unfound in the corrie of the vineberg.

  41. The oldest sheep-farming family in Scotland are the Mackinnons of Corrie in Skye.

  42. Deer have certain passes which they use when going from one corrie to another, and, if they are disturbed, they make for one of these passes up-wind.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corrie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.