lochans

One winter morning the roadside lochans may be frozen to dull icy sheets, while the next day the surface may glint and glisten as sunlight strikes sparks from an overnight snowfall resting on the ice beneath.

Country diary: South Uist 2010

As the evening shadows lengthen, and the night wind softly steals through the trees, touching with restless fingers the still waters of the little lochans that would fain have rest, there can be heard a long, long whisper, like a sigh.

A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

As it happened, his vanity about his gift got but a brief gratification, for he had not led me by his signs more than a mile on the way to the south when we came again to a cluster of lochans, and among them a large fellow called Loch Ba, where the mist was lifting quickly.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

I skirted them as far off as I could, as though they were the lochans of a nightmare that drag the traveller to their kelpie tenants 'arms.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

All about me, when the rain was gone for the last time, there was a cry of waters, the voices of the burns running into the lochans, tinkling, tinkling, tinkling merrily, and all out of key with a poor wretch in draggled tartans, fleeing he knew not whither, but going about in shortened circles like a hedgehog in the sea.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

As he rose from bending over the heather and looked around, seeing the moor in its many colours stretch in swelling waves far into the distance, the lochans winking to the day and over all a kind soft sky, he was thrilling with his delight.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

To reach St.rling the English must advance by their left, along the so-called German way, through the village of St. Nian's, or by their right, through the Carse, partly enclosed, and much broken, in drainless days, by reedy lochans.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

The mist intensified the cold when the citadel mountain was reached, so that it must have been a relief to try a spell of walking once more, especially as the first part of the way was "soft and easy," while the party looked down on the two _lochans_, known as _Na

Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 Sarah Tytler 1870

And so, climbing to the top of the cliffs, along a water-course, we reached the ridge, just as the fog came rolling downwards from the peaked brow of the Storr into the flat moory valley, and the melancholy lochans roughened and darkened in the rain.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

From the top of the cliff the surface slopes downwards for about two miles into the interior, like the half-raised chest-lid of my illustration sloping towards the hinges, or the uptilted ice-table of the boulder sloping towards the centre of the pond; and the depression behind forms a flat moory valley, full fifteen miles in length, occupied by a chain of dark bogs and treeless lochans.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829