None at all. But what did you hear him say? That the land must be sinking here, because there were peat-bogs everywhere below high-water mark. Is that true? Quite true; and that peat would never have been formed where the salt water could get at it, as it does now every tide. But what was it he said about that cliff over there? He said that cliff on our right, a hundred feet high, was plainly once joined on to that low island on our left. What, that long bank of stones, with a house on it?英文原著 · 《Madam How and Lady Why》
"Troth no, lass," said another; "the gathering peat, if it was weel blawn, wad dress a' our Hobbie's venison." [The gathering peat is the piece of turf left to treasure up the secret seeds of fire, without any generous consumption of fuel; in a word, to keep the fire alive.]英文原著 · 《The Black Dwarf》
"No, but what France is a good place too," he explained; "but it's some way no the same. It's brawer I believe, but it's no Scotland. I like it fine when I'm there, man; yet I kind of weary for Scots divots and the Scots peat-reek."英文原著 · 《Catriona》
In thir days, dwalled upon the Bass a man of God, Peden the Prophet was his name. Ye'll have heard tell of Prophet Peden. There was never the wale of him sinsyne, and it's a question wi' mony if there ever was his like afore. He was wild's a peat-hag, fearsome to look at, fearsome to hear, his face like the day of judgment. The voice of him was like a solan's and dinnle'd in folks' lugs, and the words of him like coals of fire.英文原著 · 《Catriona》
"To be peaten like a dog," said Robin; "is there any reason in that? If you think I have done you wrong, I'll go before your shudge, though I neither know his law nor his language."英文原著 · 《Chronicles of the Canongate》
It was a beautiful, dark old kitchen, with a homely fire of peat that glowed up to smoke-stained rafters. Soon it was full of shepherds, come in to a supper of brose, cheese, milk and bannocks. Sheep-dogs sprawled and dozed on the hearth, so that the gude wife complained of their being underfoot. But she left them undisturbed and stepped over them, for, tired as they were, they would have to go out again to drive the sheep into the fold.英文原著 · 《Greyfriars Bobby》