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

"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

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

From Viking Boys by Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston

Eyvind and all with him left their lives on this rock, and the skerry is still called Skrattasker.

From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

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)