How To Use Firth In A Sentence

We still don't know for certain who took them, nor have I been able to find dateable pictures of Salts chimney with a hoist at the side to find out if Levi Firth could have been the photographer.
The Oscar dress, a chic black number with a rouched-shoulder detail, was created for one of our judges, Livia Firth, who took ethical fashion to the red carpet this year and was featured in Vogue, on TV and in fashion gossip all around the world. Observer Ethical Awards: From Somewhere, Ethical Fashion Award
Southwest of the Dornoch Firth, the Sgurr Beag Thrust divides the Moine rocks into two major nappes.
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. Country diary: Cromarty Firth
But the fact these rigs are in the firth at all is bad news.

The peninsula is sandwiched between two sea lochs, Loch Fyne to the west and Loch Long to the east - the latter penetrating inland from the Firth of Clyde.
He told her the tales of the sea lochs and the firths that decorated the coast.
Look at today's news about the vomiting crusie ship up at the Cromarty Firth and ponder when was the last time the Govan yards built a cruise liner? Loose lips sink ships
And from every point on the coast you may get, if the weather is fine which cannot be guaranteed rapturous views across the firth to the Isle of May, with its Stevenson lighthouse. In praise of … the coast around Crail | Editorial
Firth Rixson was a Carlyle-held metal forgings company I ran from 2002-05. My Experience as a Private-Equity CEO
Now they were in the Firth again and steaming towards Dunoon. The Glasgow Girls
Where other anthropologists exoticised or patronised, Firth humanised the people about whom he wrote.
It's so great to hear a speech that kind of galvanizes the psyche of a country," Rush said backstage at the SAG Awards, alongside Firth and supporting-actress nominee Chicagotribune.com - News
The Angles eventually took the remainder of England as far north as the Firth of Forth, including the future Edinburgh and the Scottish lowlands’.
The men were questioned about an alleged incident in which a motorcycle pillion passenger fired shots into a garden at The Oval in Firth Park.
Always glowing whenever she hits a stage or screen, the blond, round-cheeked Ebersole has an infallible instinct for jollying a melody that jibes seamlessly with what Weinstein is doing as he rapidly saws away and as Firth and Hubbard fill their breaks with matching virtuosity. David Finkle: First Nighter: Genius Jazz Violinist Aaron Weinstein Meets Brilliant Jazz Singer Christine Ebersole in Dual Birdland Triumph
The Firth of Tay glittered like crumpled silver foil, and the city shone with an inner light.
The problem with this back-and-firth is that it doesn’t really address the issues at hand. Global Voices in English » East Timor: Ricegate scandal
The hedgerows looked greener and the sunshine was glittering off the Firth of Forth. For Love or Money
This is a remnant of the ancient Forest of Caledon that is reputed to have once stretched from the Beauly Firth to the Argyll coast. Country diary: Glen Strathfarrar
And what is he really doing at firth? full “report” coming soon. #33 Killer Connections
As with 2008's Sweet Bells, Penistone folkie Rusby draws on the tradition of carol singing in South Yorkshire public houses, even unearthing centuries-old tunes in Diadem and Holmfirth Anthem. Kate Rusby: While Mortals Sleep – review
Such was the popularity of these drinking dens that to meet the demand at the height of the boom in 1760, the Firth of Forth yielded 30 million oysters a year.
The views were extensive, out over the haughs of Abernethy and Cromdale towards the waters of the Moray Firth.
In Andrew's day they had drifted up and down the firth lifting nets dripping with moonlight and herring.
The hedgerows looked greener and the sunshine was glittering off the Firth of Forth. For Love or Money
The estuaries and salt marshes of the Solway Firth, in southwest Scotland, are feeding and roosting grounds for many thousands of wintering wildfowl.
But it's interesting to see the number of rigs piling up in the Cromarty Firth.
Three ships, six fishing boats and a filthy dredger stood along the busy wharf where the river flowed into the firth. A Small Death in the Great Glen
This farm grain bin near Firth was typical of the storm damage that extended from central to eastern Nebraska.
Up to 74 shorebird species have been sighted here, with a peak of 40,000 migratory birds utilizing the Firth at one time, including the New Zealand dotterel (Charadrius obscurus VU) and more than half of New Zealand's wrybill population. Northland temperate kauri forests
A ride along the coastal path on the Firth of Forth will blow away any winter cobwebs. Times, Sunday Times
Grant is the ultimate other-directed figure, who wants to be loved rather than esteemed, while Firth is inner-directed and looks back to a much older, more grounded tradition. Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, the screen's leading Englishmen at 50
Helping real writing talent to emerge: Willy Russell and Tim Firth, aka the Singing Playwrights.
As Mark Darcy, Firth played an illusive dreamboat named after his own television triumph as Austen's hero; Grant's portrayal of the caddish Daniel Cleaver was an amused nod at his own popular persona.
Two former RAF bases have been refurbished for the regiments returning to the UK: RAF Cottesmore in Rutland, and RAF Kinloss on the Moray Firth. UK troops to withdraw from Germany by end of decade under MoD plans
May lighthouse, where the Firth expands into the German Ocean; and away to the west, over all the carse of Stirling, you can see the first snows upon Ben Ledi. Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
Sharp and funny, this adaptation also sees Colin Firth and Hugh Grant square up for a comedy barney as love rivals.
It is an outstanding performance from Colin Firth, not especially because it is a departure for him, but because the part itself is such a perfect match for Firth's habitual and superbly calibrated performance register: withdrawn, pained, but sensual, with sparks of wit and fun. The Guardian World News
The autumn trek between the Firth and Babbage rivers will find this Arctic netherworld in its glory with aurora borealis, char running rivers, ripe blueberries, and the migrating Porcupine Caribou Herd.
We all embarked in the barge and crossed over the firth, which is in this place nearly a mile broad, to Castro Pol, the first town in the Asturias. The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
Team Firth all the way!
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
The 65,000 ton carrier, with warships and support vessels, anchored outside British territorial waters some 30 miles off the Moray Firth, in Scotland. British Destroyer 'Keeps Watch' on Russian Carrier
The Firth of Lorn is so full of warring tiderips sluicing through deep, slender channels between the swarming islands, it is seldom still.
Back outside the day centre in Inverness, a chill wind blew off the Moray Firth, a foretaste of the approaching winter.
Closest to a firth: Inverness Caledonian Thistle's Caledonian Stadium takes this one by a mile. Which football stadium is closest to water?
The project would be in addition to the new £89m road crossing already planned 14 miles upstream in the upper firth to take pressure off the existing bridge.
The pleasure starts with two magnificent performances: Colin Firth as King George VI, afflicted by a terrible stutter, and Geoffrey Rush as an unorthodox Australian speech therapist, Lionel Logue.
The movie sees Burton psychoanalysing Firth to cure him of his depression.
The weather in the Firth of Forth that day was night was described by Forth Coastguards as horrendous with gales, rough seas and freezing temperatures.
Grant's counterpoint, Colin Firth, is all-out broody repression - he is never better than when he is uptight.
_Snell_, _blae_, _nirly_, and _scowthering_, are four of these significant vocables; they are all words that carry a shiver with them; and for my part as I see them aligned before me on the page, I am persuaded that a big wind comes tearing over the Firth from Burntisland and the northern hills; I think I can hear it howl in the chimney, and as I set my face northwards, feel its smarting kisses on my cheek. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
My earliest memories are formed by two houses: a modest white one on the edge of an Orkney loch, and a larger pink one looking out across the Cromarty Firth.
Sadly for me, nobody ever thought to test the damn thing on the Firth of Clyde on a Tuesday.
This also allows her to examine those peculiarities of current and shoreline that make stretches of water like the Pentland Firth such rich pickings for local wreckers.
But McLucas has other thoughts for the Queen's jubilee weekend - he will be sailing his yacht in the Firth of Clyde.
Firstly, former Knights trialist Jermaine Coleman - who won the battle of the stand-offs with Thaler - gave a sharp pass to see Craig Firth cross, and then Damian Reed got the ball out for Barnett to turn on the boosters.
The five sentences are to run concurrently, meaning Firth will serve three years in custody in total.
That small firth fed off the main river and joined with the larger harbor, to form a natural launch point for ships. SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
Back outside the day centre in Inverness, a chill wind blew off the Moray Firth, a foretaste of the approaching winter.
The view across the Firth of Forth to East Lothian is expansive, from North Berwick Law in the distance to the impressive Bass Rock jutting out of the Forth.
There, clear, was Arthur's seat, the Georgian grid of the new town, the apron of streets spreading downhill, northwards, to Leith and to the firth.
Firth here seemed to suggest the creativity and diversity of linguistic idiosyncrasy in language use.
The reservoir is signposted on the Holmfirth Road, east of Greenfield village.
Roads of a sort, fitfully maintained by statute-labour, existed in an arc from the Moray Firth to the central belt, but were often so primitive, rutted, or miry that they got worse as traffic increased.
Experts said tolls for motorists would have to be in excess of the present 80p charged to cross the firth - rising to £1 in October - to recoup costs within an acceptable time-scale.
Grass and sand by the Moray Firth, where fertile farmland was buried in sand by a persistent storm in October 1694. Weatherwatch: A storm that made a desert on the Moray Firth
A professor of microbiology at the university discovered the bacteria earlier this year growing on fucus seaweed in the Firth of Forth.
In the fishing villages on the Firths of Forth and Tay, as well as elsewhere in Scotland, the government is gyneocracy, as described in the text. The Antiquary
Brearley was bitterly disappointed in Firths' reaction to his innovation.
Who knows how many favours the Comic Relief powers-that-be had to call in, but they managed to open with a clip of The King's Speech – intercut with scenes of Lenny Henry pointing agonisedly to his watch as Colin Firth stutters in the sports ground and telling him they've only got seven hours to get everything in. Comic Relief's mix of mirth and misery done to a turn
A ride along the coastal path on the Firth of Forth will blow away any winter cobwebs. Times, Sunday Times
As a result of reduced exploration activity, Moray Firth Service Company achieved a disappointing 173 rig days during the year.
The movie sees Burton psychoanalysing Firth to cure him of his depression.
The group will meet Cromarty Firth Port Authority later this month to discuss options for mooring the vessel.
Until these break-out roles for Firth, the two actors had kept up some kind of equivalence, each succeeding as Jane Austen heroes after Grant played Edward Ferrars in Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility, then both tackling the modern-day laddy Englishness of Nick Hornby's world in adaptations of Fever Pitch and About a Boy. Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, the screen's leading Englishmen at 50
People forget that Glasgow is by the sea, but I love restaurants that make something of that closeness, bringing mussels and whelks and Firth of Clyde-reared cod onto the menu.
In the meantime, the "What dress will Kate choose?" line of inquiry will be most magnetic for some; others will while the time away debating and handicapping Colin Firth's chances for a Best Actor Oscar by the way, if you'd like to listen to the REAL King's speech... the BBC recording of George VI delivering that address in 1939 can be found here. Rome Hartman: Kate and William: 100 Days to Go
And for all the power of Firth's inner-directed subtlety, it is surely true that there are few stars who occupy such a clear place in the mind of the cinema-going public as Grant does. Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, the screen's leading Englishmen at 50
Police are appealing for information following the theft of a large sum of money from a property in Firth.
It is hidden away and surrounded by park land and woods, with views to the north over Dunbar to the Firth of Forth.
The hotel, which opened in 1974, sits high above Langbank and the grounds have stunning views over the Firth of Clyde.
The peninsula is sandwiched between two sea lochs, Loch Fyne to the west and Loch Long to the east - the latter penetrating inland from the Firth of Clyde.
Now a certain strand went west of the firth, and a great stead was thereon, which was called Baldur's Meads; a Place of Peace was there, and a great temple, and round about it a great garth of pales: many gods were there, but amidst them all was Baldur held of most account. The Story Of Frithiof The Bold 1875
The movie sees Burton psychoanalysing Firth to cure him of his depression.
Take an ascending NE line round the S slopes of Firthhope Rig to the col between it and White Coomb.
He told her the tales of the sea lochs and the firths that decorated the coast.
Firth here seemed to suggest the creativity and diversity of linguistic idiosyncrasy in language use.
Captain Firth sat at the controls of the aircraft.
It's so great to hear a speech that kind of galvanizes the psyche of a country," Rush said backstage at the SAG Awards, alongside Firth and supporting-actress nominee Helena Bonham Carter, who plays the king's devoted queen. Kansas City Star: Front Page
Though Everett's flamboyant-yet-vulnerable performance is the showcase, Firth is his perfect foil as the deliciously snotty malcontent Tommy Judd.
It is often difficult to see, and certainly less noticeable than the oil rigs in the firth.
The 60-strong choir has this time teamed up with the renowned Hepworth Brass Band which will set up in Holmfirth in 1882.
Thorstein had a home in the Western Settlement at a certain farmstead, which is called Lysufirth. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503
It said some raw sewage may wash up on beaches in the Firth of Forth. The Sun
As some have suggested, Firth himself considered the possibility, which others of the ANU's founding fathers were pressing upon him, of assuming the inaugural headship of the institute.
And for all the power of Firth's inner-directed subtlety, it is surely true that there are few stars who occupy such a clear place in the mind of the cinema-going public as Grant does. Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, the screen's leading Englishmen at 50
With two rounds of projects in operation or being built, the government in January awarded a third round of licenses, for nine enormous wind farms stretching from Scotland's Moray Firth to the Isle of Wight in southern England. Headwinds Buffet Green Energy Rush
Conversely, my usual lust for Colin Firth was wholly overwhelmed by longing just to be walking the same London streets.
I suggested "The King's Speech," and, not wanting to spoil it with too many details, gave a shorthand description: Colin Firth as King George VI, who has a terrible stutter, and Geoffrey Rush as a raffish Australian speech therapist. 'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights
One plane I would like to find here is the Junkers 88a bomber that crashed several miles south of the firth near Aberlady Bay.
The hotel is situated on the sheltered shores of the Moray Firth.
It suggests flooding and erosion will be particularly serious in the Forth, Tay, Clyde and Dornoch firths and that the nation will have to give up some homes to the sea.
It was then stationed off Fife Ness to guide ships approaching the firths of Tay and Forth.
'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' Acorn Media 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' With a feature film on the horizon starring Gary Oldman and Colin Firth Dec. 9, this 1979 BBC miniseries is being rereleased in a less expensive, more compact set, with six episodes shown as PBS originally aired them. TV on DVD
Enjoying spectacular views across the firth, it was refashioned in 1916 for the admiralty and enjoyed the patronage of successive generations of the royal family until the late 1980s.
She sandwiches the concert between summer festival appearances in the Isle of Man, Holmfirth, Sidmouth, Gainsborough and Norway.
In the last of our series of Tales From The Riverside Stephen Lewis spends a morning with Selby lock-keeper Fred Firth
(She's played, mutedly, by Juliet Stevenson, who is only four years older than Mr. Firth.) Arabs, Jews Duel,
Sheltered, deep-water anchorages like the Cromarty Firth are scarce.
Grant is the ultimate other-directed figure, who wants to be loved rather than esteemed, while Firth is inner-directed and looks back to a much older, more grounded tradition. Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, the screen's leading Englishmen at 50
The comparative late developer, Firth now seems set to win at least an Oscar nomination for his performance as George VI in The King's Speech.
I dug around in my pack and found my notebook, wrote a while, exchanged greetings with dog walkers, but for the most part just looked out over the firth and breathed the cool clean air.
The Moray Firth near Inverness is an unlikely location for a "Scottish desert", but that was the local name for Culbin district near the mouth of the Findhorn river before the Forestry Commission planted it with fir trees and stabilized the sand dunes. Weatherwatch: A storm that made a desert on the Moray Firth
As Mark Darcy, Firth played an illusive dreamboat named after his own television triumph as Austen's hero; Grant's portrayal of the caddish Daniel Cleaver was an amused nod at his own popular persona. Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, the screen's leading Englishmen at 50
Peter, aged 49 from Ilkley, who has been a top-flight orienteer for many years, took part in both the individual and relay competitions held on tough hilly terrain around Kincardine on the Firth of Forth estuary in Scotland.
The port, once famous for shipbuilding, had a sizeable whaling fleet, and operated a ferry across the firth to Granton until 1939.
Captain Firth sat at the controls of the aircraft.
A ride along the coastal path on the Firth of Forth will blow away any winter cobwebs. Times, Sunday Times
The company's plan has already attracted more than 430 objections, from both Scottish and English sides of the firth.
The path leads you out to the headland with spectacular views over the firths.
But clear as was the fashion of the mountains, they were yet a long way off: for betwixt them and the ridge whereon those fellows stood, stretched a vast plain, houseless and treeless, and, as they beheld it thence grey and ungrassed (though indeed it was not wholly so) like a huge river or firth of the sea it seemed, and such indeed it had been once, to wit a flood of molten rock in the old days when the earth was a-burning. The Well at the World's End: a tale
The views open out to the north-east, across the treacherous Pentland Firth to Orkney, as you reach Portskerra pier.
A carlin undertook to carry a large hill from Ayrshire to Ireland, but she dropped it on the way to form what is now Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde.
Its founder, Donald Katz, told the Observer: "Colin Firth could read me the back of a Marmite jar and I would listen... I'd pay Dustin Hoffman to read from a cereal box.
Brearley was bitterly disappointed in Firths' reaction to his innovation.
She drew my attention to a recent wreck dive in the Firth of Forth and enclosed lurid Scottish newspaper cuttings about it.
No discussion, no explanation, in fact he had almost as little idea of what was going on as the flight lieutenant, but station commanders tucked up here on the Moray Firth had to be adaptable. The Edge of Madness
What's unusual about the effort is its dimensions: While existing offshore wind projects tend to be in shallow waters close to the coast, the Moray Firth venture is expected to culminate in the first offshore wind farm in deep water (150 feet) far from land (15 miles). Can Wind Power Find Its Footing in the Deep?
AS HEARD ON TV: "I personally thought you were very good in Mamma Mia." — Oscar front-runner Colin Firth, imagining how he would like to be greeted by God at the Pearly Gates, on Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio. ... Matt's TV Week in Review
In "The King's Speech" Mr. Firth uses a touching combination of vulnerability and fortitude to play Albert, Duke of York — George VI once he ascends the throne after the abdication of his older brother, Edward VIII. With Vulnerability and Fortitude
Scottish International fell runner Neil Wilkinson gave them the lead after Holmfirth, Morpeth and Derby all disputed top spot following the first three legs.
Laurence Urdang The phenomenon for which D.S. Bland proposes the term subjective onomatopoeia [XII, 2] has been examined and discussed for decades by a number of linguists and critics, including Otto Jespersen (with examples such as those of the - ump family cited by Bland), Edward S.pir (the ici and lá vowel contrast that Bland picks up from French), R.ssell Ultan (size and distance symbolism in general), J.R. Firth, Fred W. Householder, Jr., VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3
The Scottish government is considering reviewing the existing oil spill policy for cetaceans in the Moray Firth, which is currently inadequate and would do little to protect individuals should a spill occur. Business Wire Travel News
Fifty years ago on October 26 black clouds swirled over the mouth of the Firth of Tay as the east coast of Scotland was buffeted by fierce winds.
Mr Firth said that Yorkshire business people were also becoming better networkers and he expected many businesses to benefit from deals secured at the event.
He is a likeable chap and as much a well-loved local icon as Inverness Castle and the nearby firth's dolphins.
Birdwatchers have been flocking to the shores of the Firth of Forth after thousands of South American seabirds made an unscheduled stop.
The views are spectacular, augmented by a flotilla of yachts whose owners favour the location as an essential stopover on the Firth of Clyde.
The back commands terrific views over the Dean Village and the Firth and Forth, the horizon bristling with spires and treetops.
But the lights of the killer fleet still glittered in the firth.
Anyone who has seen film of the Moray Firth dolphins beating up harbour porpoises will also be aware that we humans, by comparison with porpoises, are as agile in the sea and as well able to defend ourselves as a slug on a carpet. [dolphins] see them in context
German U-boats would wait silently in the firth for targets.
A firth is a Lowland word for coastal waters such as a bay, an inlet or a strait. Paul & Matt's Sports Attack
Overlooking the firth of Clyde, the castle's central defensive keep was built in about 1200, with the rest of the castle constructed around it in 1580.
I would imagine the Picts in Srath Earn would have a different dialect to those in the Moray Firth those are two known 'pictish' strongholds when cross-referencing evidence. Pictish female names
Many Allied ships were torpedoed during World War 2 by the dreaded German U-Boats, which actively patrolled up and down the Firth of Forth.
About that name: Cullen is, of course, a fishing town on the Moray Firth, an inlet popular with haddock, while "skink" has a more puzzling history. How to cook perfect cullen skink
If you must travel across the firth then use the Kincardine Bridge or go round on the M9.
Right in the cobbled heart of historic South Queensferry, it is at its best in summer, when decking and an outdoor terrace offer al fresco dining with great views over the firth.
He opened the scoring with a penalty and made the most of a firth fumble to race 80 metres up field, and add the conversion.

How To Use Firth In A Sentence

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