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Strath   Listen
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Strath  n.  A valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; often used in composition with the name of the river; as, Strath Spey, Strathdon, Strathmore. (Scot.) "The long green strath of Napa valley."






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"Strath" Quotes from Famous Books



... is formed by the marriage of two streams, one flowing out of Strath Ardle and the other descending from Cairn Gowar through the long, lonely Pass of Glenshee. The Ericht begins at the bridge of Cally, and its placid, beautiful glen, unmarred by railway or factory, reaches ...
— Little Rivers - A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness • Henry van Dyke

... steadily, warily, wearily, over dreary heaths and snow-capped fells, and rugged nesses and tossing sounds, and away into the boundless sea—or who could live?—till he got hardened in the fight into ruthlessness of need and greed. The poor strip of flat strath, ploughed and re-ploughed again in the short summer days, would yield no more; or wet harvests spoiled the crops, or heavy snows starved the cattle. And so the Norseman launched his ships when the lands were sown in spring, and went forth to pillage or to trade, as luck would have, ...
— Historical Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley

... of a bad harvest had proved themselves false. Never a better harvest had been gathered in the strath, nor had one ever been carried home in superior condition. But the passion for prophecy had not abated in Glamerton. It was a spiritual ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald



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