firth

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

In 1964, the famous rail crossing was joined on the firth by the Forth Road Bridge.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2015

After a slow start County went on to dominate with Ivan Sproule scoring his firth goal in as many starts to give County the lead 11 minutes from the break.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2013

The firth is a 20-mile- long, eight-mile-wide strip of water dividing the islands with the mainland.

From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 5, 2011

White Harbor’s walls of whitewashed stone rose before them, on the eastern shore where the White Knife plunged into die firth.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

So thereupon the earl rowed through the firths with his fleet to meet his foes.

From Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Robert Leighton

It must have travelled over a country unknown to it, and have crossed the firths of Forth and Tay.

From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various

Often had he beheld the sea in the firths and estuaries of the North, but never till now had he conceived the grandeur of the great Atlantic.

From Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

These three lesser firths, together with the main creek that flows into each above the point where the tide reaches, are respectively the Pahi, the Paparoa, and the Matakohe.

From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay

The territorial designation of Albany was formerly given to those parts of Scotland to the north of the firths of Clyde and Forth.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg