- a variation of firth.
frith
Example Sentences
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They jumped off the ship's side on to the sand, which was firm and white, and ran to shore, and up the frith, where the going was easy for a mile or two.
From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Maurice Henry Hewlett
So they set sail, and made a good passage, and came into the frith on a day of fresh southerly wind and strong sunshine.
From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Now in mine arms I shall him fold, King of all kings by field and by frith; He might have had better, and Himself would, Than the breathing of these beasts to warm him with.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
This long frith is 120 miles in length including its windings, and communicates at its eastern end with the Baltic.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
Lord Loudon had taken up his quarters at Dornoch, on the frith which divides Rosshire from Sutherland.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Mrs. Thomson
