frith

Example Sentences

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He spent that summer preaching to the people in the Settlement up and down the frith.

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

Worthy of either song or story Are the shires round frith of Moray, Here lies the valley of Strathspey, Famed for its music, lively, gay, Elgin cathedral's 'prentice aisle Is glory of that ruined pile.

From Poems of James McIntyre by McIntyre, James

This long frith is 120 miles in length including its windings, and communicates at its eastern end with the Baltic.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

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

On their way back to the ship they struck the frith nearer to the mouth than where the anchorage was.

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