firth
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A sheep spotted at the foot of steep cliffs on the shores of a Scottish firth has been dubbed Britain's loneliest sheep.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2023
On the distant horizon was a cluster of faint street lights, a small town hunkered on the far side of the firth.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020
The firth is a 20-mile- long, eight-mile-wide strip of water dividing the islands with the mainland.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 5, 2011
Elsewhere at Telluride, director Weir will be given a Silver medallion award for his contribution to film, as will British actor Colin firth and Italy's Claudia Cardinale.
From Reuters ● Sep. 2, 2010
Its firth had remained free of ice even in the depths of winter for centuries.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
The coasts are deeply indented with numerous bays and fiords or firths, which, when traced inland, are almost invariably found to terminate against glaciers.
From Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel by Ignatius Donnelly
From the speech of his elders Biorn made his picture of the world beyond the firths.
From The Path of the King by John Buchan
Before thirty years were over the bulk of the island had passed beneath the Roman sway, and the Roman frontier had been carried to the firths of Forth and of Clyde.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Now we would be lurking on the mainland, now skulking on one of the islands or crossing rough firths in crazy boats that leaked like a sieve.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
Thord had put on board ship all the chattels his mother owned there, and the cattle were to be driven round the heads of the firths.
From Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic by Muriel A.C. Press
