She opened her ungloved right hand to reveal a bonnet brooch of beautiful and very ancient workmanship showing the crest of the MacDonalds of Dhrum set with a fine cairngorm and some exquisite old paste.
"The Heather-Moon"
C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
"If I could but buy plenty of such sapphires," said Mr. Burns, "on a foggy afternoon like this, when the air is as yellow as a cairngorm, and sell them the first summer-like day of spring, I should make a fortune in a very few years."
"Warlock o' Glenwarlock"
George MacDonald
Both command grand glimpses of the mountains, which belong to the three great ranges of the district-cairngorm, Glengairn, and Loch-na-Gar.
"Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, (Victoria) Vol II"
Sarah Tytler