skerry

Example Sentences

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For years I coloured your world in hues you didn't recognise; never your island, always your skerry – "unable to see the romance of the thing for the thing itself".

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2010

They approached the skerry, and, lowering their sail, cast anchor, and launched a second small boat, which they had brought with them.

From Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

"He was ahint the skerry when we were in the geo, and heard a'."

From Viking Boys by Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston

In a cleft on the skerry was a patch of green grass.

From Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

They now went the same way back, and again ascended up to the skerry.

From Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)