It is quite incomprehensible," he said, "how one can sit here among the skerries and manage mines far away in Russia.
He landed with his boat on one of those skerries which form the last breakwater against the open sea, and which only sea-birds and fishermen frequent during the summer.
Skaw], and the skerries of Nortmannia [Norway], is so narrow that boats easily sail across it in one night.
Every year in the month of July Mrs. Kearney found occasion to say to some friend: "My good man is packing us off to Skerries for a few weeks.
If it was not Skerries it was Howth or Greystones.
The works at the Pentland Skerries were begun early in the spring of 1794.
Returning southward, they visited the Light-houses on the Start Point of Sanday, and the Pentland Skerries in Orkney.
After the completion of these two light-houses on the Pentland Skerries in 1794, a period of ten years elapsed before the erection of any additional light-house was undertaken on the coast of Scotland.
Now it was gone, and now it ducked up again like a sea-mew, and past skerries and capes it whizzed like a dart.
Just as he said this, the water within the skerries all at once became quite smooth, and the parson's boat drove high and dry upon the sandbank, so that the mast cracked.
They sailed on and on till night-fall; they sailed on and on till they saw neither headland nor island nor sea-bird in the outer skerries more.
But when we had passed theSkerries the wind grew greater and greater, and with much ado we recovered the shore with the [ship], but could not possibly gain any harbour, but were driven to the main sea.
As he now saw the skerries receding from the stern of his boat he began to breathe easier, and when he shortly landed on the first rock he was seized by an irrepressible feeling of happiness.
For what did he care if these deserted skerries supported a half starving, superfluous population or not.
Is it not more to know why, than to know that a thing is so; and still less to see nothing but an even gray, as the painter, who paints all the skerrieswith a mixing of black and white?
Do you see that the Black Rock is darker than the others, because it consists of the dark: hornblende; that the Red Rock is red, because it is composed of red gneiss, and the white skerries of clean washed eurite?
The place was not lively as the Skerries are not situated on one of the main courses to Stockholm.
Therefore they paint and depict everything so monotonously; therefore they find the skerries so monotonous.
The consequent refraction disfigured the aspect of the skerries and had caused the most magnificent mirages during the past few days.
This was now Commissioner Borg's mission at the East Skerries for the summer.
There was not a breath of wind for three days and three nights, as they coasted southward, with the peaks of the Norland on their port, and to starboard the skerries that kept guard on the firths.
In the sound between the skerries there was a swarm of sails.
And all the rocky knolls that we see so firmly united, can they be only holms and skerries parted by the rolling waves?
I mean that the stout schooner I sailed in would be in a safe harbour now instead of drifting as spindle-wood among those skerries if there were no wreckers on your islands, my lad!
They lapsed into silence after that, and drearily watched the water as it carried them along, until they began to near a group of skerries which lay on the direct way to Havnholme.
In time past, my friends, the cross-currents were too much for some of the human barks that were out for life's voyage, and they swamped among the skerries instead of finding the calm shelter of this islet.
At present I can only tell you a small part of what happened during the week which the Osprey spent in cruising among the lonely skerries and holmes of Hialtland.
Gerald of Kildare might appear again; and there were rumours that the French meditated a descent and the establishment of a fortified port at Skerries to command the passage to Scotland.
As it was, he was able to lie close to Skerries and to send in his boats, which burned four Geraldine vessels at anchor in the roads.
And when Hoering came to the edge he leaped down, hoping to fall into the sea; but he had missed his reckoning, and he went upon some skerries over which the waves tossed, and broke every bone in his body, and so ended his life.
Moreover, if his foot slipped he would be flung over the edge upon the rocks or skerriesbelow against which the waves dashed.
A shoal of mackerel made a spluttering splashing sound beyond the skerries outside the haven.
When he got east to the skerries of East Gautland, he ran in and landed, and made a great blood-sacrifice.
It is also characteristic that while the east coast is without islands, a belt of skerries is shown on the north along the west coast.
The idea may have arisen through a misunderstanding of stories that the walruses often lie in great herds, close together, on the tops of skerries and small islands, and are there speared in great numbers by the hunters.
But Greenland is separated from these by ice-clad skerries ('scopulis').
These casualties are now much less common since the lights on the Skerries and the Start have been established.
Get off the Skerries about ten o'clock, and land easily; it is the first time a boat has got there for several days.
But when they were come eastward, and were off Vik, arose a strong contrary wind wherefore was the fleet obliged to stand in for harbour, making such havens as were to be found in the skerries as well as those in the fjords.
Through it and over it the Skerries Lighthouse still throws at regular intervals its revolving beam, showing that it still counts as night.
The Skerries light is still flashing, though it must be now superfluous; but even as I write this, it must have flashed its last, for the proper interval has gone by.
Who ever heard of going off to the Skerries in a salmon cobble?
I saw her pass the point of the Skerries an hour ago.
Captain Twinely is coming with us to the Skerries for a pic-nic.
For this purpose they raised a large force, and went out among the skerries to intercept him.
No, we have no establishment for supplying the people with goods; but we have beach boys and curing materials at the Skerries to the east of Whalsay.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skerries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
