frith

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They used to walk home together, and sometimes did not go the straight road, but went round by the frith and looked at Einar's ship lying out at her moorings, swaying with the tide.

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

And th�s geares w�ron of-slegene nigon eorlas, and an cyning; and thy geare namon West-Seaxan frith with thone here.

From New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words by Swinton, William

He was placed very young under the discipline of St. Servanus, bishop and abbot of Culros, a monastery, situated upon the frith which divides Lothian from Fife.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban

Early next day he weighed his anchor and went down the frith.

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

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 Thomson, Mrs.