Scaur

I dare say you have seen upon some dreary moor, or at the foot of some 'scaur' on the hillside, the bleached bones of a sheep, lying white and grim among the purple heather. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

Three sons he had, three bright and stirring boys; they must to school, and school was far away; — and they must clamber where the hill – track failed, by narrow ledges through the headlong scaur. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Here is the wonderful reindeer that bore, at Gendin, Peer Gynt over edge and scaur. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Oh that an abrupt scaur, or a strip of flaming desert, or something salient and brilliant, would break in, however discordantly, upon this monotony of green! ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

And down the shingly scaur he plunged, and caught, ❋ Unknown (2004)

So do the shadows and the sunshine wander, elbowing into one another on the moor, and so does the glance of smiling foliage soothe the austerity of crag and scaur. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

At the back of the house rose a mountain spine, blocking out the westering sun, but cut with one deep portal where a pass ran into Westmoreland — the scaur-gate whence the house was named; and through this gate of mountain often, when the day was waning, a bar of slanting sunset entered, like a plume of golden dust, and hovered on a broad black patch of weather-beaten fir-trees. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

But its office must not be confounded with that attributed to the sinister-looking scaur of Leucadia; here the erring wives of the Kings of Boma and their paramours found a Bosphorus. ❋ Unknown (2003)

'She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; ❋ John Dawson (1972)

On, on they sped, the happiest, maddest, merriest trio imaginable, down the road to the point where the perspective seemed to end it but where in reality it turned abruptly, leaving the one following its course the choice of taking a sudden dip down to the water's edge or wheeling to the right and leaping "brake, bracken and scaur." ❋ Unknown (N/A)

It is wooded to the very nose, almost, except for the precipitous _sgornach_ or scaur, that, seen from a distance, looks like a red wound on the face of it The fort, a square tower of extraordinarily stout masonry, with an eminent roof, had a sconce with escarpment round it, placed on the very edge of the summit. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

Choosing the broadest and deepest scaur that is scratched down the abrupt side of the lower range of the mountain, we find it, as we anticipated, the channel of a clear dancing stream, which amuses us with its babble for several hundred feet of the ascent. ❋ Various (N/A)

Purdie said: "I could hae thrawn mine off the head o 'a scaur, and if she had strucken a whinstane rock she wad hae been nae mair blunted than if I had thrawn her on a haystalk." ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

Though Prentiss and his gallant men are forcing scaur and crag, ❋ Emma Look Scott (N/A)

The waves break all round the rocky scaur, and fill the air with their thunder, while the strong wind blows the spray into beards which stream backwards from the incoming crests. ❋ Gordon Home (1923)