frith

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By marshes or lonely moorlands, by inland lakes and ponds, or by wooded friths and estuaries, following up the wild-fowl never failed to give them the very greatest of pleasure and sport.

From Wild Adventures in Wild Places by Stables, Gordon

Down these friths the ice is protruded in huge masses, several miles wide, which continue their course— grating along the rocky bottom like ordinary glaciers long after they have reached the salt water.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

The water was perhaps three miles from Darrow House, but I could see that two little friths ran up far into the meadow-land.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various

Wet, wet, wet; sloppy weather, truly, and no observations, except that the land near the Lake being very level, the rivers spread out into broad friths and sponges.

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by Waller, Horace

During the years 80, 81, and 82, he subdued that part of Scotland south of the friths of Forth and Clyde.

From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)