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
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 R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
Now they saw it, and said, that it must be a skerry; but he was so much keener of sight than they, that he was able to discern men upon the skerry.
From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Julius E. Olson
To which—with a prolonged yawn—the prospective client drawled out: "I ain't particular, Mister, I jest thought I'd get you to pick out a few skerry fellows that would complemise easy!"
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
How strange, that the identical sea heaving around stack and skerry in this remote corner of the Hebrides should have once been thronged by reptile shapes more strange than poet ever imagined,—dragons, gorgons and chimeras!
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds
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
As its summit disappears, groups of hills, detached from the land, become islands, skerries, deep-sea rocks, in turn.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds
The flood-tide will be past, and if there is any sea on, it will be ill passing the skerries, many of which are but little covered, even at high water.”
From The Norsemen in the West by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
