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

“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.

Certain it is that they struck, and their boat was burst, upon a skerry under Snowfellness. 

From The Waif Woman by Stevenson, Robert Louis

His boat, being smaller and lighter than the Laulie, could venture much nearer a skerry or holme.

From Viking Boys by Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston

North of us are two small islets and a small rock or skerry.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Nansen, Fridtjof