Whaup

The very birds seemed to shun these wastes, and no wonder, since they had an easy method of escaping from them; — at least I only heard the monotonous and plaintive cries of the lapwing and curlew, which my companions denominated the peasweep and whaup. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I canna depone to having ever seen ane mysell, but, I ance heard ane whistle ahint me in the moss, as like a whaup ❋ Unknown (2004)

"We're neither whaup nor deer," said she, shrugging her shoulders, "to live here wild the rest of our days." ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

When the win 'sings high, and the sea-whaup's cry, ❋ Various (N/A)

'I wadna gi'e ae wheeple of a whaup for a' the nichtingales in England. ' ❋ Various (N/A)

Then the calm which follows the wake of the storm, the consciously averted eyes, and the very conscious breathing, which had in it something of shame; the almost aversion to speak or touch again, and over all, the deep silence of the moor, broken only by the burn and the whaup, and the thick cloud, kindly dark, that came over the moon. ❋ James C. Welsh (N/A)

And far away the whaup wheepled in protest, the burn still grumbled, and the perfumes, and the sounds of the glen and all its beauty were as if they had never existed, and the thick cloud grew blacker over the face of the moon. ❋ James C. Welsh (N/A)

The long, melancholy wail of a whaup, the eerie hoot of an owl, at times smote dully on his ear; but to all his entreaties and his questions no human voice made answer; in stony silence his abductor rode steadily on. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

Seldom did human foot tread the heather of that glen in the days before Donald took up his abode there; to the raven and the mountain-fox, the muir-fowl and the whaup, alone belonged that kingdom. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

As Robert approached manhood, he took more and more to the moors, wandering alone among the haunts of the whaup and other moor birds, wrestling with problems to which older heads never gave a thought, trying to understand life and to build from his heart and experience something that would be satisfying. ❋ James C. Welsh (N/A)

The silence, heavy and scented, was broken only by the far-away wheepling of a wakeful whaup and the grumbling of the burn near by, which bickered and hurried to be out in the open again on its way to the river. ❋ James C. Welsh (N/A)

"A brave lad, Hamish," says Dan; "he'll have listened to a 'the ghost and bogle and bawkin stories since he could creep, and yet he'll whistle himsel' safe ower the hill and be too proud tae run, an 'I'm thinkin' every muircock that craws, and every whaup that cries, out on the peat-hags, will be a bogle in his childish mind." ❋ John Sillars (N/A)

She shut her eyes for a moment, and heard again the alarmed protest of the whaup, and the grumble of the burn; saw again the moonlight patterns upon the ground, as it flittered through the trees, like streams of fairy radiance cast from the magic wand of night and, above all, heard Peter's voice, praising her eyes, her hair, her figure. ❋ James C. Welsh (N/A)

To-morrow I intend to go down to my husband's office and see his secretary, "to inspect the whaup," as ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)

Murdoch gave the call of the whaup to signal Donald Roy. ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)

We could hear the cry of the whaup, a mournful, plaintive note; our own voices were the only other sounds that broke the stillness. ❋ Harry Lauder (1910)

"Turn ye to the west," said the whaup, "and let the sun fail on your face; then turn ye five times round about and say after me the Rune Of the Heather and the Dew." ❋ John Buchan (1907)

I canna depone to having ever seen ane mysell, but I ance heard ane whistle ahint me in the moss, as like a whaup as ae thing could be ❋ Unknown (1898)

The very birds seemed to shun these wastes, and no wonder, since they had an easy method of escaping from them; --- at least I only heard the monotonous and plaintive cries of the lapwing and curlew, which my companions denominated the peasweep and whaup. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Southward all was green and whaup-haunted to the grey hip of Pentland, and we saw the spread of the countryside when we -- that is, Freddie and I-- went down the Dalkeith Road to the red-roofed hamlet of Echobank. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Joe said, "his whaup whaup could beat any [v-8] that [nipper] is [on crack]!" ❋ Mallow J Bua (2006)