Lexicographical Neighbors of Cannachs
Literary usage of Cannachs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White and James Grahame by Henry Kirke White, James Grahame (1856)
"... Where vegetation's traces almost fail, Save where the leafless cannachs wave
their tufts Of silky white, or massy oaken trunks Half-buried lie, ..."
2. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1875)
"Save where the leafless cannachs wave their tufts Of silky white, or ma.ssy oaken
trunks Half-buried lie, ami tell where greenwoods grew - There on the ..."
3. Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-century by David Macbeth Moir (1856)
"... midnight mountain-ridge—the waveless lake—the autumnal moonlight, with the
hawk sleeping on the sepulchral cairn, among the hoary cannachs of the moor. ..."
4. Scotia's Bards: The Choice Productions of the Scottish Poets, with Brief (1856)
"... "Where vegetation's traces almost fail, Save where the leafless cannachs wave
their tufts Of silky white, or massy oaken trunks Half-buried lie, ..."
5. Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Falconer by John Aikin (1843)
"... Where vegetation's traces almost fail, Save where the leafless cannachs wave
their tufts Of silky white, or massy oaken trunks Half buried lie, ..."
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