Skaw
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Bells will be sounded in Britain's northernmost inhabited house in Skaw, the Shetland Isles, and the UK's most westerly church in Tresco, The Scilly Isles.
From BBC • Jul. 24, 2012
"James Skaw," I said, tremulously, "where are those mammoths?"
From Police!!! by Hutt, Henry
Not one single harbour of refuge can be found between Esbjerg and the Skaw.
From Denmark by Thomson, M. Pearson
At evening the schooner doubled the Skaw at the northern point of Denmark, in the night passed the Skager Rack, skirted Norway by Cape Lindness, and entered the North Sea.
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules
"Gentlemen, no discovery ever made has even remotely approached in importance the discovery made by this simple, illiterate trapper, James Skaw."
From Police!!! by Hutt, Henry
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