On wet days, such was the power of habit over him, he rose from his chair at the same hour, and paced his study for the same length of time, pausing now and then to straighten some book in the bookcase, or alter the position of the two brass crucifixes standing upon Cairns of serpentine stone upon the mantelpiece.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
But the dog cures all that, and you can stand in the road and watch Dandy or Jack collect your flock just as well as if he were in the Cairns and corries of old Scotland, whence he or his grandfather came.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
On the main-land near by, as we were told, there are some singular relics of antiquity, such as a series of large stones uniformly arranged in circles, and high Cairns of stone containing in their centres one or more square chambers.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou