skerry
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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
Oh, if dogs are to be in it," laughed Tom, "there's Watchie, that Svein rescued off a skerry; and there's old toothless Tory at the Manse.
From Viking Boys by Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby
In a cleft on the skerry was a patch of green grass.
From Weird Tales from Northern Seas by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
As the boat approached nearer Fred remarked, "That is a mere lad, but there is some one else lying on the skerry."
From Viking Boys by Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby
Eyvind and all with him left their lives on this rock, and the skerry is still called Skrattasker.
From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
Golden eagles and buzzards soar, and otters and grey seals share the rocky skerries.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 29, 2020
But Lake Malar is one of the largest in Sweden, with more than 8,000 islands and skerries and several cities on its perimeter, including Stockholm to the east.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2018
Down here it is deep night; dark gleams the surf on the skerries.
From Time Magazine Archive
They lapsed into silence after that, and drearily watched the water as it carried them along, until they began to near a group of skerries which lay on the direct way to Havnholme.
From Viking Boys by Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby
A Scottish child hears much of shipwreck, outlying iron skerries, pitiless breakers, and great sea-lights; much of heathery mountains, wild clans, and hunted Covenanters.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson
