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

They approached the skerry, and lowering their sail, cast anchor, and launched a second small boat, which they had brought with them.

From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Olson, Julius E.

One morning in January, while he was out fishing in his boat with two other men, he heard, in the dark, a voice from a skerry at the very entrance of the creek.

From Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

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

From The Waif Woman by Stevenson, Robert Louis

"He was ahint the skerry when we were in the geo, and heard a'."

From Viking Boys by Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston