Crossword-Solution: SKERRY 6 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

But the glimpse of a glory comes o'er me Like the gleam of the moon on the skerry, And I faint and I fail for my longing, For the fair one at home in the North.” “Ye never get into danger,” said Thorgils, “but ye think of Steingerd!” “Nay,” answered Cormac, “but it's not often I forget her.” Well: this was a great battle, and king Harald won a glorious victory.

From reef and rock and skerry -- over headland, ness, and voe -- The Coastwise Lights of England watch the ships of England go! Through the endless summer evenings, on the lineless, level floors; Through the yelling Channel tempest when the siren hoots and roars -- By day the dipping house-flag and by night the rocket's trail -- As the sheep that graze behind us so we know them where they hail.

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.

Arnor, the earls' skald, tells of his possessions:-- "From Thurso-skerry to Dublin, All people hold with good Thorfin-- All people love his sway, And the generous chief obey." Thorfin was a very great warrior.

And when it has done so, it carries him back and shuts him in an office! From the roaring skerry and the wet thwart of the tossing boat, he passes to the stool and desk; and with a memory full of ships, and seas, and perilous headlands, and the shining pharos, he must apply his long-sighted eyes to the petty niceties of drawing, or measure his inaccurate mind with several pages of consecutive figures.