Sentence examples for cairns from inspiring English sources

The sandbar is also an excellent place to fly kites and build sandcastles and stone cairns.

Southerners have taken to erecting these cairns to adorn their gardens.

It's a "feeling in the bones", as Peter Lanyon, a Cornish painter, has it.That is how Mr Marsden feels place: Leskernick Hill on Bodmin Moor, for example, ringed by higher hills and, on the skyline, 21 cairns which seem to scrutinise him "like the gaze of high-hung portraits in an ancestral home".

Real life the rivers, towns, caves, cliffs, bridges, battlefields, towers, cairns, factories and palaces that make up the world is nowhere to be seen, and so the memory of it fades slowly from our collective consciousness.To redress the balance and to rescue geography for all those who didn't pay attention in school Mr Somerville has written a short natural history of his home country of Britain.

Half-eaten muffins, crumpled sandwich wrappers and small cairns of orange peel speak of deskbound dedication.

Tombs, cairns, and hut circles provide evidence of Iron Age settlement in the south.

In western Europe and the British Isles, burial cairns and barrows date primarily from the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age) and Early Bronze Age (4000 bce 600 ce).

Cairn terrier, working terrier breed developed in Scotland to rout vermin from cairns (rock piles).