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
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
Whatever was pinkish of it was now hidden by a skerry of weedy boulders.
From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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.
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)
