10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «YARPHA»
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Orcadian sketches; legendary and lyrical pieces
mairatour, naebody in their seven senses wad pu' doon sic ifbonnie house as
Yarpha." " Ah ! Magnus, I speak metaphorically." " The grit end o' speakin', sir, is
to mak' oursels be understood; an' when ye speak o' puin' doon houses, and ...
2
The history of the Orkney islands ...: Illustr. with a ... ...
This substance, combined with clay or with sand, forms a foil here as common as
any other, and universally known by the name of Yarpha, or bog soil, whose
characteristic is a black colour connected with the power of retaining moisture, ...
3
The History of the Orkney-islands; in which is Comprehended ...
This substance, combined with clay or with sand, forms a soil here as common as
any other, and universally known by the name of YARPHA, or bog soil, whose
characteristic is a black colour connected with the power of retaining moisture, ...
4
Orkni: the creation myth
In the beginning Orkni was a young, beautiful and voluptuous goddess. Orkni's hair was the seaweed and her eyes were the colour of the ocean. Her father was Hekli god of volcanoes, fire and lava.
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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: ...
An instrument for winding Isl. gypa vorax, from gap-a hiare. V. Gave. yam 3T3,?“ “'
'f' T° be h'mg'y' YARPHA, 8-. 1. Peat full of film and roots, our head s nae sooner
up, than your stamock's Orkney yupin ;” Ramsay's S. Prov. p. 87. YAPLY, ado.
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The English dialect dictionary
Sc. Also written yarpha S. & Ork.'; and in forms yarflf Sh.I.; yarfal Cai.l [ja'rfa.] 1.
Peat mixed with clay and sand ; pent full of fibres and roots. Sh.l. Four or five mile
0' gaet, fun 0' mory yarfs, crt byles. an' coorse hedder, Sh. News (Dec. 15, 1900).
We turn pasture to tillage, and barley into aits, and heather into greensward, and
the poor yarpha, as the benighted creatures here call their peat-bogs, into baittle
grass-land ; but we seldom make anything of it that comes back to our ain pouch
...
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The Prose Works: Containing The Abbot, Kenilworth, The ...
Captain,” replied Yellowley, stoutly, “ I have no money—seldom can improvers
have.—-We turn pasture to tiilage, and barley into aits, and heather into green-
sward, and the poor yarpha, as the benighted creatures here call their peat-bogs,
...
9
The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Sutherland, ...
And this kind of soil, called yarpha, yields few productions except mosses, some
of the coarser grasses, and stunted heaths. The soil in general, independently of
the sterile clay on which it rests, is seldom more than three or four inches deep, ...
10
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
Mr. Vedder, we suspect, however, has given us a more correct picture,_it smacks
of the roughness and asperity of the reality. The Laird o' Yarpha and Magnns Hal.
ero are pictures, of which the subject be. longs to the Dutch school, while the ...
William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone, 1832
