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Definition of Glens
1. glen [n] - See also: glen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glens
Literary usage of Glens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
"The sunshine In the happy glens is fair." WE are Irish people in the glens. ...
I know no tongue familiarly except my own—that of the glens of Antrim—and ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"glens FALLS, NY, city in Warren County on the Hudson River, glens Falls Feeder to
... Twelve miles above glens Falls is situated the great Spier Falls dam ..."
3. Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student by William Herbert Hobbs (1912)
"The " parallel roads " of the Scottish glens. — In a number of neighboring glens
within the southern highlands of Scotland there are found faint terraces ..."
4. Lineage and Biographies of the Norris Family in America from 1640 to 1892 by Leonard Allison Morrison (1892)
"In 1850 he removed to glens Falls, NY, and resided there till his death at ...
Mr. Noms res. in Sutton for fifteen years, and has res. in glens Falls, NY, ..."
5. Tarry at Home Travels by Edward Everett Hale (1906)
"wants, to know why Saunders are sometimes glens and glens are sometimes Saunders, ‘let
him read,' as Mr. Browning says. Some of these people went down to ..."
6. The Monthly Review (1841)
"Wild Flowers from the glens. By EJJ Dublin : Curry • and Co. TALES of a romantic
cast, illustrative of the superstitions of the glens of Antrim, ..."
7. Works by Washington Irving (1895)
"Mountain glens—Anecdotes ... but diversified in many places by grassy little
glens, with springs of water, bright sparkling brooks, clumps of pine trees, ..."
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