frith

Example Sentences

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The lovely frith or bay, with its numerous inlets, islands, and surrounding bright green hills, lay at our feet.

From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Smiles, Samuel

In Edinburgh the inhabitants live under the shadow of its two fantastic mountains, and from their windows can trace the windings of its glittering frith.

From Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng

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 Lyell, Charles, Sir

"This is Heriolfsness, a good ten hours' sailing from the frith; and I am Heriolf at your service."

From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

They rode through the town-gate, and along the frith to the left or northwards, where the road wound near Tornborg.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin