A firth is a Lowland word for coastal waters such as a bay, an inlet or a strait. From Wordnik.com. [Paul & Matt's Sports Attack] Reference
The problem with this back-and-firth is that it doesn’t really address the issues at hand. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » East Timor: Ricegate scandal] Reference
June 23, 2009 at 2:29 pm colin firth as nefing at awl. From Wordnik.com. [Sure, ai have a - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Mr darcy was the firstest tyme ever seen colin firth. From Wordnik.com. [Sure, ai have a - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
The firth into which both fleets had mustered is called. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
“Put the neist time they meet me on the firth,” said. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
Favourite actor/actress? colin firth/alan rickman ... allison janney. From Wordnik.com. [evolver Diary Entry] Reference
Quite pretty - we look out on to the firth and the Ochil hills behind. From Wordnik.com. [Labour Poll Says SNP Heading for Landslide] Reference
We can at last see the twin Forth bridges around the corner and up the firth. From Wordnik.com. [December « 2006 « Squares of Wheat] Reference
They had their boat out that day, and were fishing some way out in the firth. From Wordnik.com. [The Wicked Day]
The firth question news organizations will ask is how does this make me money?. From Wordnik.com. [Google as the new pressroom « BuzzMachine] Reference
A driving rain accompanied them along the shores of the smelled but unseen firth. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Death in the Great Glen] Reference
Thiostolf rowed away up the firth, but they shouted after him wishing him ill luck. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
The swift currents where the river met the narrow waters of the firth were notorious. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Death in the Great Glen] Reference
I really loved the feel of the firth game, one of the best games with a good atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Marky Mark as Max Payne: First shot] Reference
Two nights after, they saw land on both boards, and a great surf running up in the firth. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
“A body would float down the firth on the ebb tide and be well upriver on the flood tide.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Death in the Great Glen] Reference
Closest to a firth: Inverness Caledonian Thistle's Caledonian Stadium takes this one by a mile. From Wordnik.com. [Which football stadium is closest to water?] Reference
But when he came into the Pentland firth, then he had thirty war-ships, all big and in good trim. From Wordnik.com. [De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Warfare in the Orkney Islands in the Eleventh Century] Reference
The city of Dundee is situated on the east coast of Scotland on the north bank of the firth of Tay. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
But each to there own…besides you dont meet many French speaking people in Holme firth…well…not THAT many!. From Wordnik.com. [the end of the affair?] Reference
But it could also be in the firth of the two volumes of Delany criticism publilished by Dragon Press in the 70s. From Wordnik.com. [Inadequacies of Allegory] Reference
They took their oars and began to pull from the shore, then spread their sail, and drove merrily across the firth. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
The breeze that had taken the brig so far down the firth soon died away, and we rocked gently south of Ailsa Craig. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference
Wemyss Castle is not a place he'll come, nor any of his fellows, for all it's just across the firth from Edinburgh. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Three ships, six fishing boats and a filthy dredger stood along the busy wharf where the river flowed into the firth. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Death in the Great Glen] Reference
The birds are still at any rate and the sea is calm; hushed are the winds, and silence broods o'er this narrow firth. From Wordnik.com. [Iphigenia at Aulis] Reference
Don drove them to the bleak council housing estate on the edge of the firth near the ferry crossing to the Black Isle. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Death in the Great Glen] Reference
DArby bent to scoop up a handful of pebbles and began casting the stones, one by one, into the waters of the blue firth. From Wordnik.com. [The Edge of Madness] Reference
So a boat was lent them at once, and they rowed up the firth to Reykianess, and found Oswif, and told him these tidings. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
The lake or firth reminded me of the Gareloch, and boats were sailing about in all directions before the evening breeze. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
I wish them well and all, but maybe it would have been smarter to not roll out so much new product in their firth month. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-02-01] Reference
Across the firth the hills rose gently toward Edinburgh, but the fog and mist obscured it and Mary could not see the city. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Clouds massed there now, far out over the distant firth, but the sun shone on the hilltop, and the air was still and warm. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Drontheim was originally the name of the country round the firth of the same name, and is not used in the old sagas for a town. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
Further, Valthiof, Sweyn's elder brother, was drowned in the roost of the West-firth, while rowing south to Jarl Paul's Yule Feast. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
Cromarty Rose, the (no joke) two-car ferry goes from Cromarty to Nigg if you can't be bothered to drive all the way round the firth. From Wordnik.com. [Let's move to Cromarty and the Black Isle, Ross-shire] Reference
So it was plan B and to the sea where eventually we ended up in the hide on the south side of this extensive firth on the east coast. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Cromarty Firth] Reference
Halt decided, in spite of Olaf's reluctance, to remove to a homestead on the other side of the firth, away from Thorbiorn's neighbourhood. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
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