You were so absorbed in young Neligan that you could not spare a thought to Patrick
Cairns, the true murderer of Peter Carey."
Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy
cairns and tors.
He cached portions of his kills at different points, building
cairns of rock to mark their locations.
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.
After this, the Achaeans pile him a
cairn and hold games in his honour.
In my letter I told him to be sure to mark the terminus of the line very plainly with a high
cairn, in case I was not able to reach him before he set out, so that I might easily find and communicate with him should he be so fortunate as to reach Pellucidar.
Does the answer lie somewhere upon the bosom of the broad Sahara, at the ends of two tiny wires, hidden beneath a lost
cairn?
When his body and armour had been burned to ashes, we raised a
cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the
cairn we fixed the oar that he had been used to row with.
The dogs came leaping along, and whole flocks of wild-fowl flew over the
cairn, where blackberry-bushes were hanging round the old stones.
Next, they came to masses and fragments of naked rock heaped confusedly together, like a
cairn reared by giants in memory of a giant chief.
Then I widened my
cairn below, so that I could stand firmly before springing upon the pinnacle with which I completed it.
New-old, and shadowing Sense at war with Soul Rather than that gray King, whose name, a ghost, Streams like a cloud, man-shaped, from mountain peak, And cleaves to
cairn and cromlech still; or him Of Geoffrey's book, or him of Malleor's."