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

Certain it is that they struck, and their boat was burst, upon a skerry under Snowfellness. 

From The Waif Woman by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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)

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 Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

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

From Viking Boys by Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston