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
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)
"I do not know," says Lief, "whether it is a ship or a skerry that I see."
From Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
But he was so much more sharp-sighted than they, that he was able to discern men upon the skerry.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
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
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
But now, after the work was finished, no one could conceal his astonishment at this sudden anchoring, just off the coast, among islets and skerries.
From Norse Tales and Sketches by Kielland, Alexander Lange
The water was dashing over the skerries behind them, and the path by which Miss Wardour and her father had passed so recently was now only a confusion of boiling and eddying foam.
From Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Scott, Walter, Sir
