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

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 Olson, Julius E.

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 Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

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 Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

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

From Viking Boys by Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston