smirr

Briefly, as it was still perishing and in fact deteriorated into a drenching smirr* on Saturday.

General meanderings Jes 2009

Briefly, as it was still perishing and in fact deteriorated into a drenching smirr* on Saturday.

Archive 2009-02-01 Jes 2009

Both men had zippered their jackets against the snell wind and the occasional smirr.

Strip Jack Rankin, Ian, 1960- 1992

Cheviot and on some of the foot-hills, and a smirr of hoar-frost silvered the turf by the roadside; but the sun was bright -- strong to overcome frost and snow -- and in it the leaves that still clung to the beech hedges shone like burnished copper.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

The rain that was a smirr or drizzle on the north side of Glencoe grew to a steady shower in the valley itself, and when we had traversed a bit in the airt of Tynree it had become a pouring torrent -- slanting in our faces with the lash of whips, streaming from the hair and crinkling the hands, and leaving the bonnet on the head as heavy as any French soldier's salade.

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

The first smirr soaked our clothing; by the middle of the glen we were drenched to the hide, and the rain was flowing from the edges of our kilts in runnels.

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

Then a smirr of rain came at my back and chilled me to the marrow, though the sweat of travail a moment before had been on every part of me, and even dripping in beads from my chin.

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

We were at present shut in a sea of fog, a smirr of mist and rain, but when that lifted he could not promise that we would not be close on the campfires of the dragoons.

A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912

Calton Hill to a bench overlooking the city, the weather was dreich (damp and dismal), with something of a smirr

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If he is the man you have drawn for me he will never be letting a smirr of rain interfere with his plans; and as for the other road, it will be a river in spate by this time, "the Highlander reassured me.

A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912