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)

Oh, if dogs are to be in it," laughed Tom, "there's Watchie, that Svein rescued off a skerry; and there's old toothless Tory at the Manse.

From Viking Boys by Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston

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

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)