skerry

Example Sentences

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For years I coloured your world in hues you didn't recognise; never your island, always your skerry – "unable to see the romance of the thing for the thing itself".

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2010

Certain it is that they struck, and their boat was burst, upon a skerry under Snowfellness. 

From The Waif Woman by Stevenson, Robert Louis

But he was so much more sharp-sighted than they, that he was able to discern men upon the skerry.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

It was whiter than the foam about the skerry it was; whiter than the moon shining; whiter than ... well, as white as the painted letters on the black boards of the fishing-cobles.

From The Best Psychic Stories by Various

Rock and skerry are brown with sea weed.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh