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

Shortly afterwards he was again lying on the skerry, and the lass smiled so blithely; she bent over him and said, "It is I, Eilert."

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

North of us are two small islets and a small rock or skerry.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Nansen, Fridtjof

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)

In another version S�mps� is fetched from an island beyond the sea: It is I who summoned S�mps� From an isle amid the ocean, From a skerry bare and treeless.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.