- a variation of firth.
frith
Example Sentences
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They sailed out of the frith one fine afternoon, and were lost to sight.
From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Where so ever ye fare by frith or by fell, My dear child, take heed how Trystram do you tell.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other.
From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by George H. Devol
It was therefore deemed necessary to have two detachments; one to guard the passage of the frith, the other to go by the head of it.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Mrs. Thomson
It stands upon the brink of a frith, about nine miles above Port Royal, and thence enjoys all the advantages of the chief mart in this trading country.
From The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig
