fiord

• We had rounded a sharp bend in the fiord, and were sailing up a broad and straight reach which every moment disclosed new beauties, sights fair enough to be balm to the angriest spirit. —  The Riddle of the Sands
• In a minute the creek would be behind us and we would be thumping our stem into the short hollow waves of the fiord, and lurching through spray and rain for some point on the opposite shore. —  The Riddle of the Sands
• Part of the passage of the fiord is very narrow among the small islands, and the water very deep. —  Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N.
• The word fiord, sometimes spelled fjord, comes from Norway, where fiords are common.
• Perhaps your boatman will row you into the middle of the fiord, and demand your purse before he consents to take you back to the vessel; or you may be shipwrecked on a sunken rock, and left stranded in the Arctic Circle, dependent on the hospitality of the Laplanders No, thanks! —  The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life

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