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
"This is the scheer," said our captain, using a word which recalled to my mind, at once, the Swedish skär, and the English skerry, used alike to denote a coast-group of rocky islets.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various
It was whiter than the foam about the skerry it was; whiter than the moon shining; whiter than ... well, as white as the painted letters on the black boards of the fishing-cobles.
From The Best Psychic Stories by Various
Rock and skerry are brown with sea weed.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh
With that he awoke, and saw that the sunbeams were running over the wet skerry, and the Mermaid was still sitting by his side.
From Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
