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  • noun Plural form of skerry.

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Examples

  • Articulations on a vast scale, like the southern peninsulas of Asia, produce quite different cultural and historical effects from small physical sub-divisions, like the fiord promontories and "skerries" of

    Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

  • Each land had things to call its own, including smaller cousin-islets and skerries.

    The Codex Continual » Kharndam Guide: Brief History 2009

  • If I watch carefully, the skerries will show me where the other sunkers are.

    Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009

  • If I watch carefully, the skerries will show me where the other sunkers are.

    Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009

  • If I watch carefully, the skerries will show me where the other sunkers are.

    Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009

  • With his keen sight and sound judgment, it would not have taken him long to determine that the inner part of the bay does not consist of floating barrier, but that the Barrier there rests upon a good, solid foundation, probably in the form of small islands, skerries, or shoals, and from this point he and his able companions would have disposed of the South Polar question once for all.

    The South Pole~ Plan and Preparations 2009

  • Here they are part of a magic uniquely connected to the land, and fairytales have them be mysterious sorceresses, wearing their black feathers when they fly to their secret skerries out towards the open sea.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Torill 2007

  • The map of Pellinge shows an arc of uninhabited skerries west of Glosholm; they may be connected with a ridge of random formations on the sea bed.

    Archive 2005-06-19 Michael Evans 2005

  • After Kummelskär come Musblötan, Käringskrevan and Bisaball, small inaccessible skerries where only fishermen and hunters can think of landing, and last in the series Klovharun, i.e. a haru (rocky island) that has split (cloven) in two.

    Archive 2005-06-19 Michael Evans 2005

  • Here they are part of a magic uniquely connected to the land, and fairytales have them be mysterious sorceresses, wearing their black feathers when they fly to their secret skerries out towards the open sea.

    Cormorants Torill 2007

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