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

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 Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston

Now they saw it, and said that it must be a 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)

"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)

“I do not know,” says Leif, “whether it is a ship or a skerry that I see.”

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