“The wean saw something like a white leddy that weised us the gate,” said Tibb; “when we were like to hae perished in the moss-hags — certain it was that Shagram reisted, and I ken Martin thinks he saw something.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
He was obliged to lodge in moss-hags, sheils of shepherds, or holes dug in the ground by his followers; when sticks were kindled for a fire, and children conveyed to him food, not unfrequently without the knowledge of their parents. ❋ Thomas Houston (N/A)
They took shelter where it could be found -- under friendly roofs, within dismal caves, under dripping moss-hags, in the open fields, and on mountain tops. ❋ J. C. McFeeters (N/A)
The desolate moors, the dreary mountains, the damp caves, the chilly moss-hags were before them, but their resting-place this night must be determined by the setting of the sun. ❋ J. C. McFeeters (N/A)
Gloomy caves, dripping moss-hags, and unmarked graves, were asylums of mercy to multitudes, who are without any earthly record; but their names are written in heaven. ❋ J. C. McFeeters (N/A)
Dumfriesshire and her Cameronians, with their great namesake's lion heart; Ayrshire, with her bloody memories of moor and moss-hags, of quarry and conventicle, of Laud and liberty -- all these had filtered through and reappeared in these silent and stalwart men. ❋ Robert E. Knowles (N/A)
To the right of the white road that drove forward was a wide moor of dark moss-hags, flung like a crumpled cloth on a slope that stretched as far as the eye could see to the base of black hills about which clambered white mists. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
Two or three whaups rose from the moss-hags and then sailed pee-weeting towards the hills, as if despatched by the moor to warn them of the coming of these strangers; and it was as if the range answered shortly, ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
Bavelaw burn, a furtive trickle among the moss-hags, a brown rushy confusion between two moors. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
Many weary detours I made among moss-hags and screes and the stony channels of burns. ❋ John Buchan (1907)
From the zigzag causeway on either side, stretched away an array of empty moss-hags still glistening with moisture. ❋ Unknown (1887)
For first there were the little waves of the sheep-tracks, then the gentle rollers of the moss-hags, and, last of all, certain black dangerous Maélstroms from which last year's peats had been dug, in which a moment's folly on the part of Neddy or Teddy might engulf the Armada for ever. ❋ Unknown (1887)
"The wean saw something like a white leddy that weised us the gate," said Tibb; "when we were like to hae perished in the moss-hags -- certain it was that Shagram reisted, and I ken Martin thinks he saw something." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
I ne’er gat ony gude by his doctrine, as ye ca’t, but a sour fit o’ the batts wi’ sitting amang the wat moss-hags for four hours at a yoking, and the leddy cured me wi’ some hickery-pickery; mair by token, an she had kend how I came by the disorder, she wadna hae been in sic a hurry to mend it.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
I ne'er gat ony gude by his doctrine, as ye ca't, but a sour fit o 'the batts wi' sitting amang the wat moss-hags for four hours at a yoking, and the leddy cured me wi 'some hickery-pickery; mair by token, an she had kend how I came by the disorder, she wadna hae been in sic a hurry to mend it. " ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
