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He said he would have expected to have been told in advance about steps to accommodate the ship in the firth.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026

On the distant horizon was a cluster of faint street lights, a small town hunkered on the far side of the firth.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020

After a slow start County went on to dominate with Ivan Sproule scoring his firth goal in as many starts to give County the lead 11 minutes from the break.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2013

The firth is a 20-mile- long, eight-mile-wide strip of water dividing the islands with the mainland.

From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 5, 2011

Its firth had remained free of ice even in the depths of winter for centuries.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Often had he beheld the sea in the firths and estuaries of the North, but never till now had he conceived the grandeur of the great Atlantic.

From Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

It is the drawback of Seldon that we are twelve miles from a railway station, though we look out on one of the loveliest firths in Scotland.

From An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Allen, Grant

Thence he sailed west, round Wales, and so north, through Scotland's firths, and did not stay his course till he came to Thraswick in Caithness, to master Skeggi's house.

From The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor by Unknown

Knox went to Dun in Forfarshire across the great firths of Forth and Tay, and to Calder, the house of Sir James Sandilands, afterwards Lord Torphichen, in Lothian, where many gathered to hear him.

From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George

Now Kari and his fellows sailed south through Scotland's firths, and there they found men from the Southern isles.

From The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor by Unknown