frith

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The lovely frith or bay, with its numerous inlets, islands, and surrounding bright green hills, lay at our feet.

From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Smiles, Samuel

This long frith is 120 miles in length including its windings, and communicates at its eastern end with the Baltic.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

The window overlooked the North Loch and the swelling bank beyond, and the distant frith and the hills of Fife.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John

She kept her gaze for the tide in the frith, feeling it would be indiscreet to say more.

From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

They rode through the town-gate, and along the frith to the left or northwards, where the road wound near Tornborg.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin