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
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 R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
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 Julius E. Olson
Rock and skerry are brown with sea weed.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller
The skerry was wet, as if the sea had only recently been flowing over it, and on it he saw a pale girl with such lovely eyes.
From Weird Tales from Northern Seas by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
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
One or two larger islands were in the distance; brown rocks and skerries lying like dots upon the blue water; and away to the east the Highland hills rose among the clouds.
From The Adventure League by Hilda T. Skae
A shoal of mackerel made a spluttering splashing sound beyond the skerries outside the haven.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod
