skerry
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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
The same autumn Olaf had his first battle at Sotasker, which lies in the Swedish skerry circle.
From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
As the boat approached nearer Fred remarked, "That is a mere lad, but there is some one else lying on the skerry."
From Viking Boys by Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby
Thereupon Lief said to Thorvald, "If it be thy will, brother, thou mayest go to Wineland with my ship; but I wish the ship first to fetch the wood which Thori had upon the skerry."
From Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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 Fridtjof Nansen
Golden eagles and buzzards soar, and otters and grey seals share the rocky skerries.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 29, 2020
But Lake Malar is one of the largest in Sweden, with more than 8,000 islands and skerries and several cities on its perimeter, including Stockholm to the east.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2018
Down here it is deep night; dark gleams the surf on the skerries.
From Time Magazine Archive
But these are Gunnbiorn's skerries wan, Meet harbour for a hapless man.
From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris
The King sailed with his warships out among the skerries, intending to proceed north to Drontheim, while Haldor the Fierce, with his friends and men, went back to Horlingdal.
From Erling the Bold by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
