Coastal inlet

Usage examples of firth.

The environment, with its surface layer of sphagnum under which lie thick deposits of peat, is so conducive to birdlife that Loch Fleet and the Dornoch Firth account for most of the more than five thousand birds that winter in the county of Sutherland.

Fayth drew a footlike peninsula off the far southwest of the Scottish side of the firth.

The whole edifice sat in huge leafy grounds on the outskirts of the village of Kincardine, to the northern side of the Firth of Forth, almost equidistant between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

William Knox, a short-lived poet of considerable merit, was born at Firth, in the parish of Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire, on the 17th August 1789.

The surrounding moor had browned with the approach of winter, but the bright afternoon sun of this day gave the place a warm, springlike look, especially as it reflected the brilliant azure hue of the firth.

King William II, called Rufus, marched north into Cumbria and captured Carlisle, and established the northern border of England at the Solway Firth, where it has remained for over 800 years.

Jenkins and Hutchins picked Firth up and carried him to the sidelines, where they laid him down on a grassy spot.

The Almighty knew Scots had been born and bred to battle in the old days when her feudal family, the Maxwells of Dumfriesshire, had ruled the area north of the English border from their great and fabled castle, Caerlaverock, on the Firth of Solway.

After a long, lingering kiss, Anne, clinging to him now, her woman heart and body responding, said, "I will love you, John Fraser, until Solway Firth, wherever it is, is dry and until all the stones of Caerlaverock `melt wi' the sun`--and even beyond that.

Now, in the 709 opposite direction, toward Solway Firth, you'll see traces of the second Caerlaverock foundation, just the general outline.

They sat around its glassy blaze and ate some of their provisions: bannocks and dried fish, cheese, salty dulse, and red carrageen from the firth.

Nothing could save them, but gaining the mouth of the Firth of Tay, and then they could bear up for Dundee.

Watching Galen Firth as he heard that grim report, Rannek almost expected the man to order the warriors to close ranks and launch an attack, but even the stern and stubborn Galen was not that foolhardy.

The map was an instant attraction, especially the west coast, fringed with firths, lochs, ky les and isles.

Dornoch wasn't easy to get to, isolated as it was from Edinburgh by an expanse of moody hills and three great sea firths north of Inverness.