Carse

Hence every early community stands, to start with, near its own cultivable territory, usually a broad river-valley, an alluvial plain, a 'carse' or lowland, for uplands as yet were incapable of tillage by the primitive agriculture of those early epochs. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

What was the special cause of the fen itself? why did not the great lowland become a fertile 'carse' of firm alluvial soil, like that of ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

May lighthouse, where the Firth expands into the German Ocean; and away to the west, over all the carse of Stirling, you can see the first snows upon Ben Ledi. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Four miles west of the town the fertile limestone _carse_ swells into the shady hills, clad largely with pine, that form the long glacis of the Alleghanies. ❋ Various (N/A)

Benchonzie, the limit on the north, where the highest elevation is reached at 3048 feet, and the wood-crowned Turleum, 1291 feet high, where "wind and water sheers," the southern boundary, down to the well-cultivated and nearly level carse, which lies all the way between ❋ John Hunter (1883)

But the Earn slips between this seeming obstacle and the spurs of the Ochils, making such haste as it can through carse-like land to join the lordly Tay hard by Abernethy -- the ancient capital of the Southern Picts -- the centre of missionary enterprise, when darkness was thick upon the land after Ninian had died at Whithorn, on the Solway, and before Columba had set foot upon ❋ John Hunter (1883)

After which the Doctor sat down -- there was some difficulty in getting the family to sit in his presence -- and held a thorough review of the family history for the last year, dwelling upon the prospects of Charlie, for whom the Doctor had got a situation, and Jean, the married daughter, whose husband might one day have a farm with four pair of horses in the carse of Gowrie. ❋ Ian Maclaren (1878)

The standard of liberty had been raised by him on the carse of Gowrie, and he carried it in his victorious arm from east to west, from the most northern point of Sutherland to the walls of Stirling; but there, the garrison which the treason of the late regent had admitted into that citadel gave a momentary check to his career. ❋ Unknown (1875)

He and Lord March came upon the carse at the time I went thither to meet my gallant countrymen; and these two noblemen, though so lately the friends of Edward, united with the rest in proclaiming me regent. ❋ Unknown (1875)

We were within the regions watered by the Nile, and the harvests resembled those of the carse of Gowrie. ❋ Andrew Carnegie (1877)

But it does not stand actually _in_ the carse; it occupies as a rule the nearest convenient height or hill-top, most often the one that juts out farthest into the subjacent plain, by way of security against the attack of enemies. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

Ocean; and away to the west, over all the carse of ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

To the east you may catch at sunset the spark of the May lighthouse, where the Firth expands into the German Ocean; and away to the west, over all the carse of Stirling, you can see the first snows upon Ben Ledi. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

Whence, think you, came that affluence of melody with which every strath and glen and carse of ❋ Various (1870)

Bannock beyond the left wing of the Scottish army, to make their way across the carse, and so to reach Stirling. ❋ Unknown (1867)

Randolph had with him 500 pikemen, whom he had withdrawn from his division in order to carry out his appointed task of seeing that the English did not pass along the low ground at the edge of the carse behind ❋ Unknown (1867)

English horse had crossed the corner of the carse, and had already reached the low ground beyond the church. ❋ Unknown (1867)

To Randolph, in addition to his command of the centre division, was committed the trust of preventing any body of English from passing along at the edge of the carse, and so making round to the relief of Stirling. ❋ Unknown (1867)

Above, the banks were too high and steep to be passed; while below, where ran the Bannock through the carse, the swamps prevented passage. ❋ Unknown (1867)

The holding back of the sea from the land inside the mound by this means, had the effect of reclaiming a considerable extent of fertile carse land, which, at the time of Southey's visit, -- though the work had only been completed the year before, -- was already under profitable cultivation. ❋ Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 (1867)