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
"I do not know," says Lief, "whether it is a ship or a skerry that I see."
From Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
"He was ahint the skerry when we were in the geo, and heard a'."
From Viking Boys by Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston
"This is the scheer," said our captain, using a word which recalled to my mind, at once, the Swedish skär, and the English skerry, used alike to denote a coast-group of rocky islets.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various
The boat swung adrift, and was carried on a long sweep of the undertow some yards from the skerry; but the length of rope Yaspard had allowed prevented Signy from wondering.
From Viking Boys by Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston
