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 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)
The skerry was wet, as if the sea had only recently been flowing over it, and on it he saw a pale girl with such lovely eyes.
From Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
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)
Whatever was pinkish of it was now hidden by a skerry of weedy boulders.
From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
