What is "selkies"

Usage examples of "selkies".

Elizabeth supposed that the selkies did not set much store by shelter.

A clamor boomed through the piers as the watching selkies craned their necks and shouted, hooted, drummed on the timbers or smacked the water.

The selkies, so advanced in other simple technologies, seemed not to have invented pottery.

Delawar and Elizabeth hesitated for a moment, then joined the selkies in reclining beside it.

Susan wanted to get away, to do things that had never been done before, to see new worlds like that of the selkies, outside the Second Sphere altogether and away.

The selkies did the same, taking care to keep their hands open, palms upward.

The selkies responded with a brief, barking phrase and raised their hands also, but hesitantly, as though the gesture was unfamiliar.

Not wishing to hang around where the selkies had been, as much to avoid further alarming them as out of uncertainty about how dangerous the alarmed selkies might be, they took the skiff back to the whaling station and parked it well up the beach.

You should see some of the abominations that have been growing off the coast of Frostingdung these last few years since the selkies were driven away.

When the selkies sought to aid my folk during the invasion, Loefwin seeded the waves with that which he used to destroy the Six Kings and the Great Mages on the Day.

Gregor and Elizabeth take about one minute to recount their encounter with the selkies and their discoveries at Lemuria Beach.