firth
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A planned "hub" on the firth would make the hydrogen in a process using electricity generated by offshore and onshore wind farms.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2021
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
The firth is a 20-mile- long, eight-mile-wide strip of water dividing the islands with the mainland.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 5, 2011
Elsewhere at Telluride, director Weir will be given a Silver medallion award for his contribution to film, as will British actor Colin firth and Italy's Claudia Cardinale.
From Reuters ● Sep. 2, 2010
White Harbor’s walls of whitewashed stone rose before them, on the eastern shore where the White Knife plunged into die firth.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
From the speech of his elders Biorn made his picture of the world beyond the firths.
From The Path of the King by John Buchan
But where cañons are marked features, these lakes, firths, and dales of rounded section are very rare, or do not exist.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
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
Many of the most famous harbors in the world, as San Francisco Bay, Puget Sound, the estuaries of the Thames and the Mersey, and the Scottish firths, are drowned valleys.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
The coasts are deeply indented with numerous bays and fiords or firths, which, when traced inland, are almost invariably found to terminate against glaciers.
From Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel by Ignatius Donnelly
