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

With skill and caution Yaspard brought his boat alongside of the skerry.

From Viking Boys by Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston

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

From Viking Boys by Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston

O. N. sker, a skerry, an isolated rock in the sea.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

With that he awoke, and saw that the sunbeams were running over the wet skerry, and the Mermaid was still sitting by his side.

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