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

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)

With skill and caution Yaspard brought his boat alongside of the skerry.

From Viking Boys by Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston

In another version S�mps� is fetched from an island beyond the sea: It is I who summoned S�mps� From an isle amid the ocean, From a skerry bare and treeless.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.

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