heather


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Synonyms for heather

common Old World heath represented by many varieties

interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color

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A sair job we had of it before we got him shipped; and while he still lay in the heather, the English rogues, that couldnae come at his life, were striking at his rights.
But if the day comes, David man, that I can find time and leisure for a bit of hunting, there grows not enough heather in all Scotland to hide him from my vengeance!"
It would be a convenient world for them and their sort, if there was no such a thing as a lad and a gun behind a heather bush!
"It's a wild, dreary enough place to my mind, though there's plenty that likes it--particularly when the heather's in bloom."
"Wrong, quotha?" cried the other, jumping out of the heather. "Wrong!
Motionless among the heather, with her face to the earth, lay my poor young mistress.
He recognized the place where he had awaked by the bed of heather that was there; but it was in vain that he carried his torch all round the exterior surface of the grotto.
Heather explained: "Adam was telling me how much he liked me and I said, 'Where's the ring then?
HEATHER Small, born January 20, 1965, grew up on a West London council estate.
Heather McGillion, 24, was due to give birth to the couple's child when a friend showed her pictures of love rat Adonis Rodriguez with his new German wife on the internet.
Heather Sadler, 22, suffered years of embarrassment and suffering - and sweated so much she was unable to go out of the house.
THE wobbly bike, dimly-lit streets and cries of a newborn being delivered in the slums - it may sound like a scene from Call The Midwife, but for Heather Davies it was once a reality.
This is a very quick moving action packed illustrated adventure which involves a pig called Heather and her owner and best friend Isla.
WHEN Heather Slocombe settled down for the evening to enjoy her Tesco ready meal, she didn't expect to almost eat a ladybird.