firth
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The Marinera has been in the firth off Burghead, a village on the Moray coast.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
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
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
Knox went to Dun in Forfarshire across the great firths of Forth and Tay, and to Calder, the house of Sir James Sandilands, afterwards Lord Torphichen, in Lothian, where many gathered to hear him.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by George Reid
Over the Eastern firths High flashed their manes.
From Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley
"I am Biorn, and my father is King," he repeated to himself, the spell he had so often used when on the fells or the firths he had met fear.
From The Path of the King by John Buchan
Great numbers of this whale are often caught in the deep bays and firths of Shetland and Orkney.
From Old Jack by William Henry Giles Kingston
But where cañons are marked features, these lakes, firths, and dales of rounded section are very rare, or do not exist.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
