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)

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)

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

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