glen
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Ms Potter opened the page to find Iona - a text-to-speech programme marketed as a red haired woman standing in a Scottish glen.
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
"It's quite tough to see, it's not just the trees that are gone, all the wildlife in the glen has been devastated too," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025
Each non-Pee-wee appearance required the audience to recalibrate our expectations and remove Reubens from the glen plaid suits and pomade-slicked hairdo for which we came to know him.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2023
In a leafy glen in a very small, beautiful moment, the trees watched too.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022
And so they came at last deep into the glen; and there stood a sheer wall of rock, and in the wall the Dark Door gaped before them like the mouth of night.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The annual Manx Wildlife Week aims to encourage people to connect with the island's countryside, glens, hills and sea, as well as the creatures and plants that inhabit them.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
There will likely be no vistas of forest canopy, no shaded glens with water cascading through a tapestry of conifers, pine sap spicing the morning air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025
Although most of the park fills up daily with birthday parties, off-leash dogs, and brass bands, it’s also home to a network of shady glens, murmuring creeks, and still ponds.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2023
Visitors use it to reach the hills, glens and beaches of the west Highlands.
From BBC ● May 18, 2023
Was someone’s baby being born in one of the far glens?
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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