From his winter quarters behind the Firths of Forth and Clyde, Agricola sent his fleet to explore the distant northern parts.
It consists of a granite wall of savage mountains, for the most part serrated at the top, and occasionally broken, where bays and firths like those of Vigo and Pontevedra intervene, running deep into the land.
These bays and firths are invariably of an immense depth, and sufficiently capacious to shelter the navies of the proudest maritime nations.
When this stratified sand was deposited, the waves must have broken against the conglomerate precipices of Brahan, and the sea have occupied, as firths and sounds, the deep Highland valleys of the interior.
A child bred up in the interior of the country has been brought for the first time to the sea-shore, and carried out into the middle of one of the noble firths that indent so deeply our line of coast.
Scotland, which juts out into the German Ocean and is washed by the Firthsof Tay and Forth on its N.
Joergensen, of the firths of Igalikko and Tunnudluarbik, where the most considerable ruins are situated.
In those days three brothers came out hither, Ingolf, Ufeigh, and Eyvind, and settled those three firths that are known by their names, and there dwelt afterwards.
The Celts south of the Firthswere partly Christianized and civilized by the Romans, and thus became very different from the rest.
Hallbjorn asked how far north among the firths Flosi meant to go.
After that he will set off west to the Firths, and Sigmund with him, for he will have to flit all his goods home from the Firths west, and he will be away till the summer is far spent.
That same harvest a ship came out into the firths east to Berufirth, at a spot called Gautawick.
No sooner are the winds at point to rise, Than either Ocean's firths begin to toss And swell, and a dry crackling sound is heard Upon the heights, or one loud ferment booms The beach afar, and through the forest goes A murmur multitudinous.
The territorial designation of Albany was formerly given to those parts of Scotland to the north of the firths of Clyde and Forth.
Along the top of this shoulder the rocks are scraped by glaciers, that must at one time have occupied the whole centre of the island, and have slowly slidden down into the firths on all sides.
However, the people of the nearest vales and firths interfered, and no bloodshed ensued.
The timber seems to have been floated up the firths and rivers as near as it could be got to its destination, and then dragged by trains of horses to the spot where it was to be used.
The separatingfirths are now connected with Scotland by great bridges, over which the trains pass with reluctance.
It lies there, separate from Scotland, although very Scottish, between the firths of the Forth and the Tay, with the Ochil hills a barrier on the landside.
I am Biorn, and my father is King," he repeated to himself, the spell he had so often used when on the fells or the firths he had met fear.
His father, Thorwald Thorwaldson, was king over all the firths and wicks between Coldness in the south and Flatness and the mountain Rauma in the north, and inland over the Uplanders as far as the highest springs of the rivers.
It consists of a granite wall of savage mountains for the most part serrated at the top, and occasionally broken, where bays and firths like those of Vigo and Pontevedra intervene, running deep into the land.
There was no jewel so costly in all the West-firths that Gudrun did not deem it fitting that it should be hers, and rewarded Thorvald with anger if he did not buy it for her, however dear it might be.
Their daughter was Jorunn: she was a most beautiful woman, and very proud and extremely clever, and so was thought the best match in all the firths of the West.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "firths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
