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

Now they saw it, and said, that it must be a skerry; but he was so much keener of sight than they, that he was able to discern men upon the skerry.

From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Olson, Julius E.

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

How strange, that the identical sea heaving around stack and skerry in this remote corner of the Hebrides should have once been thronged by reptile shapes more strange than poet ever imagined,—dragons, gorgons and chimeras!

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

One morning in January, while he was out fishing in his boat with two other men, he heard, in the dark, a voice from a skerry at the very entrance of the creek.

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