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Meanings of cairn in inglés

Small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland.

Usage of cairn in inglés
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Mr John McNamara, a local, said the cairn has been totally distorted.
The Irish Times
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Was this cairn building one of the marks of the Autarch's hand?
Imajica: Complete Edition
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But the cairn on the hillside has grown to no high monument.
The French in the Heart of America
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They had caught on the cairn, and lay right across the stream.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01
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I'll wager he's left a cairn somewhere with full details inside it.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930
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We built a tall cairn, and I laid the crown within it.
Sir John Constantine / Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abr...
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The cairn and Cross stood dark against a glory of burnished gold.
The Worst Journey in the World / Antarctic 1910-1913
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But in the centre a cairn of broken stones had been piled.
The lord of the rings
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With a solemn countenance I now laid my gift upon the cairn.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volum...
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But who knows how much further it is till the giant's cairn?
The buried giant
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To this substantial cairn a further stone or two are here contributed.
Trial of Mary Blandy
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When she reached the cairn, she glanced back, making it very inconspicuous.
The Shelters of Stone
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A 15th-century neolithic cairn in the Burren in Clare has been vandalised.
The Irish Times
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They dug a shallow grave and covered it with a rock cairn.
Genellan: planetfall
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And he told me about the cairn you built, of big stones-
The Great Book of Amber
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The Queen laid the first stone of the cairn, Prince Albert the next.
Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2
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