Eyvind and all with him left their lives on this rock, and theskerry is still called Skrattasker.
Then the king ordered these all to be taken out to a skerry which was under water in flood tide, and there to be left bound.
The same autumn Olaf had his first battle at Sotasker, which lies in the Swedish skerry circle.
It afterwards became a subject of litigation until the question was put an end to by Mr. Skerry becoming connected with the Company.
The round bodies moved to and fro, but it was only when he surmounted the skerry of boulders I have mentioned that he realised the horrible nature of the discovery.
Whatever was pinkish of it was now hidden by a skerry of weedy boulders.
The Swede dropped the subject and shared his food with the stranger, who had anchored before the skerrybecause the wind had fallen.
The skerry was uninhabited, but a rude shed had been built on it to serve as a sleeping-place for fishermen in the fishing season, and as a shelter for travellers and those who might be driven ashore.
High up on the skerry stood a pile of stones which the fishermen had set there as a mark.
Far out in the Fjallang Fjord, almost in the open sea, lies a skerry which is called Trollhattorna or the "Goblin's Cap.
If she fails to weather Ossa Skerry she will drift right down on Navie Grind, and then Heaven have mercy on their souls, for no human being on board can escape," said Captain Maitland.
There does not exist any vacant chamber on the wholeskerry except the attic room over the ladies' rooms," said he with a daring, as though he had made every effort to find another.
So, they had considered it, and found that to tarry on the skerrylonger was impossible.
And now the boat houses were opened where whole families were harbored, the cottages were filled with relations and acquaintances, and on the whole skerry there was a life, which strangely contrasted with the usual solitude.
He had taken a sample from the pile which the foundation layers had blasted from the skerry and laid in a heap for the building's foundation.
He now tacked and lay oft the skerryto south-east, a point from which he had not seen his prison before.
She stood with her hands behind her back in an unbecoming attitude, until the wind brought to the skerry the tunes of a festival march, when her feet began to move on the spot.
But when he found it in good condition, he decided to go around the skerry to search for the other boat, for there must be one here, since another being had come over.
Here should the chapel be raised on the highest ridge of the skerry and its little spire point upwards over the look-out and flag pole to greet the sailors at long distance as a reminder of.
Follow me out to the skerry and see that it is only a plaything, a birthday joke.
It was the last skerry outside the channel and consisted of a couple of acres of red gneiss without any vegetation other than a few lichens on places where the drifting ice had not scraped the rocks perfectly clean.
Only sea gulls and mews had their resting place here, and now as the commissioner moored his boat and stepped up on the highest point of the skerry they gave forth cries of alarm.
The sight was quickly passed, and the demi-darkness again closed round the boat, which now fell off towards the skerry for which he had started to rest.
I do not know," says Leif, "whether it is a ship or a skerry that I see.
Eskimo], a young brother and sister, on a tidal skerry [i.
His boat, being smaller and lighter than the Laulie, could venture much nearer a skerry or holme.
Sometimes fishermen would come and tell how they had seen a sealkie on a skerry that was not a bit frightened when they came near, but dropped into the water when they tried to catch it.
I really don't believe we can get him aboard if he has broken his bones, as seems the case," the lad remarked, as he jumped upon the skerry and fastened the boat by the end of a rope to the rocks.
He was ahint the skerry when we were in the geo, and heard a'.
I wonder how it ever manages to grow there, for the skerry must be swept by the sea more often than not.
It's dont ye see yon broad broad way, That leadeth down by yon skerry fell?
Said the old man: "Sawest thou a rocky skerry rising high out of the sea anigh the shore?
How strange, that the identical sea heaving around stack and skerry in this remote corner of the Hebrides should have once been thronged by reptile shapes more strange than poet ever imagined,--dragons, gorgons and chimeras!
Yacht, who seems to like the idea of Skerry Vhor as little as the Commissioners.
Round Island, Bishop Rock, and Spurn Point in England, Fair Isle and Sule Skerry (fig.
He fancied that right up to the skerry came a whale, which said that he, Eilert, must now make haste; and when he stood on its back he stuck the shaft of an oar down its nostril, to prevent it from shooting beneath the sea again.
In a cleft on the skerrywas a patch of green grass.
One morning in January, while he was out fishing in his boat with two other men, he heard, in the dark, a voice from a skerry at the very entrance of the creek.
The skerry was wet, as if the sea had only recently been flowing over it, and on it he saw a pale girl with such lovely eyes.
When the sun went below the sea-margin there lay before him on the skerry some mouldering linen rags and nought else.
I know my father tried to burn these things," said Asdis, "and he named Thorgunna's name upon the skerry ere he died.
By the strength of hands they drove the keel against the seas, and with skill and courage Eyolf won upon the skerry and climbed up, There sat his father dead; and this was the first vengeance of Thorgunna against broken faith.
Certain it is that they struck, and their boat was burst, upon a skerry under Snowfellness.
Quiet perseverance on the part of Mr. Stevenson, and great kicking, bouncing, and squabbling upon that of the Yacht, which seems to like the idea of Skerry Vhor as little as the Commissioners.
Said the Scald, with pallid cheeks, "The Skerry of Shrieks Sings too loud for you to hear me!
Quiet perseverance on the part of Mr. Stevenson, and great kicking, bouncing, and squabbling upon that of the yacht, who seems to like the idea of Skerry Vhor as little as the commissioners.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skerry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
