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  • noun Plural form of firth.

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Examples

  • Scotland has some 2,300 miles of coastline, including numerous estuaries called firths and sea lochs.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Max. that “the only way to reduce the levels of CO2 emissions is to rely on nuclear power,” then the next logical iteration of their proposal is to build dozens more — a radioactive necklace of giant refrigerators — and then turn all those firths and lochs into glacier fields, maintaining Scotland's national climate as it awaits atmospheric conditions to return to pre-modern levels.

    Nuclear-Powered Glaciers 2008

  • Lots of cavorting seals by the shores of numerous firths.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Jes 2009

  • Lots of cavorting seals by the shores of numerous firths.

    Mythical beasties Jes 2009

  •        Portcullised rivers, and the fleeing firths.

    Upwards, Into the White Eye Rising 2009

  • Max. that “the only way to reduce the levels of CO2 emissions is to rely on nuclear power,” then the next logical iteration of their proposal is to build dozens more — a radioactive necklace of giant refrigerators — and then turn all those firths and lochs into glacier fields, maintaining Scotland's national climate as it awaits atmospheric conditions to return to pre-modern levels.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • "I picnic in virgin firths, grinning in mirth with misfit whims, smiling if I find birch twigs, smirking if I find mint sprigs."

    "I picnic in virgin firths, grinning in mirth with misfit whims, smiling if I find birch twigs, smirking if I find mint sprigs." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Althouse: "I picnic in virgin firths, grinning in mirth with misfit whims, smiling if I find birch twigs, smirking if I find mint sprigs."

    "I picnic in virgin firths, grinning in mirth with misfit whims, smiling if I find birch twigs, smirking if I find mint sprigs." Ann Althouse 2008

  • She drave over the firths to the land of King Jonakr, and he wedded her, and their sons were Sorli, and Erp, and Hamdir, and there was

    The Story of the Volsungs 2008

  • So that I reconcile myself to my destiny; and while you, are looking from mountain peaks, at distant lakes and firths, I am, DE APICIBUS JURIS, consoling myself with visions of crimson and scarlet gowns — with the appendages of handsome cowls, well lined with salary.

    Redgauntlet 2008

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