skarts

Curlews and sandpipers whistled on the shore, complaining sea-mews sailed overhead, and the low-lying skerries outside were swarming with "skarts" and other frequenters of the wild north.

The Eagle Cliff 1859

“But that costs but twa skarts of a pen,” said Lord

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

And the great skarts on the shores of Erisgeir are spreading abroad their dusky wings to get them dried in the sun; and the seals are basking on the rocks in Loch-na-Keal; and in Loch Scridain the white gulls sit buoyant on the blue sea.

Macleod of Dare William Black 1869

But meanwhile Macleod was greatly concerned to find his sweetheart so cold and distant; and it was all in vain that he pointed out to her the beauties of this summer day -- that he showed her the various islands he had often talked about, and called her attention to the skarts sitting on the Erisgeir rocks, and asked her -- seeing that she sometimes painted

Macleod of Dare William Black 1869

"And then, you know, she would be greatly interested in the clouds of puffins and the skarts behind Staffa, and we would take her to the great caves in the cliffs at Gribun; and I have no doubt she would like to go out to one of the uninhabited islands."

Macleod of Dare William Black 1869

And as the slow time passed in the glare of the sunlight, Staffa lay on the still water a dense mass of shadow; and they went by Lunga; and they drew near to the point of Gometra, where the black skarts were sitting on the exposed rocks.

Macleod of Dare William Black 1869

Treshanish Islands, with nothing round us but skarts and gulls, we could scarcely be lonelier.

Macleod of Dare William Black 1869

And the great skarts on the shores of Erisgeir are spreading abroad their dusky wings to get them dried in the sun; and the seals are basking on the rocks in Loch-na-Keal; and in Loch Scridain the white gulls sit buoyant on the blue sea.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

Beyond, as if floating on the calm water, numerous rocky islets formed the playground of innumerable gulls, skarts, seals, loons, and other inhabitants of the wild north; but only to the sense of vision were their varied activities perceptible.

The Eagle Cliff 1859

At the next meeting, I would read these “skarts of pen and ink” aloud, and canvass their adequacy, without mentioning the names of the writers.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851