How To Use Selkirk In A Sentence

  • Thankfully such days are rare, and today, out in the Selkirk Range, it isn't one of them.
  • From the start, Peter Jackson wanted his longtime associate Selkirk on The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) as he knew Selkirk would stay focused on the climax of the entire saga.
  • The forest" mentioned in the song comprehended the county of Selkirk, with portions of Peeblesshire and Lanarkshire. The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
  • Never had there been such slaughtering of capons, and fat geese, and barndoor fowls; never such boiling of “reested” hams; never such making of car-cakes and sweet scones, Selkirk bannocks, cookies, and petticoat-tails — delicacies little known to the present generation. The Bride of Lammermoor
  • ‘When they cast the colours at the end of the Selkirk common riding a great, muckle lump comes into my throat, even though I ken it's a load o' rubbish.’
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  • Never had there been such slaughtering of capons, and fat geese, and barndoor fowls; never such boiling of “reested” hams; never such making of car-cakes and sweet scones, Selkirk bannocks, cookies, and petticoat-tails — delicacies little known to the present generation. The Bride of Lammermoor
  • SELKIRK, Man - There will be more guards, but no fence at a Winnipeg-area mental health facility where bus beheader Vince Li has been granted escorted walks. CTV BritishColumbiaHome
  • Selkirk isn't being paid any kind of dockage fees to have it here, and I just think it looks really bad to have it sitting there, "she said of the ship. Winnipeg Sun
  • You can search through da cats by breeds such as Burmilla, Canadian Hairless, LaPerm, Nebelung, Cheezburger cat Chartreux, British Blue Shorthair, but probably not Russian Blue, soz, Selkirk Rex, Singapura or a Sphynx cat — maybe u cn find one 2 give a forevar home. Whoooaaa… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • My bread preference is Selkirk bannock, but you can use panettone instead.
  • My bread preference is Selkirk bannock, but you can use panettone instead.
  • Et si dicti religiosi in premissis vel aliquo premissorum aliquo anno defecerint volumus quod illud quod minus perimpletum fuerit dupplicetur diebus magis necessariis per visum capitalis forestarii nostri de Selkirk, qui pro tempore fuerit. The Monastery
  • He was a deputy lieutenant of Selkirkshire and an honorary sheriff substitute.
  • Without further ado Corbett, Selkirk and their small party returned to their own vessel.
  • After all, Alex Salmond is both a MSP and an MP and so there is no reason why Lamont should he win the Westminster seat, it's a fair assumption that the seat will be Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirkshire due to the fact he's faught it twice, then he will be covering virtually the same constituency for both Parliaments, much like Alex Salmond, no? The Fickle Mind of a Tory
  • Galashiels, and only receives the dirt and dyes of Selkirk, Letters to Dead Authors
  • Whenever the local lairds tried to graze their beasts on the Selkirk commons hundreds of folk would turn out to drive them off.
  • Defoe based his hero on a real-life castaway - Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who was abandoned on the Juan Fernandez islands off Chile in 1704 after an argument with his ship's Captain.
  • reested" hams; never such making of car-cakes and sweet scones, Selkirk bannocks, cookies, and petticoat-tails -- delicacies little known to the present generation. The Bride of Lammermoor
  • A $9-million project at Grace Hospital commenced in February as well as a $4-million section of a new MPI claims centre on Main Street, which is one element of $35-million worth of new construction MPI has on the books for three new centres in Winnipeg and another in Selkirk. Undefined
  • The association, whose president is Lord Steel MSP, restorer and owner of Aikwood Tower near Selkirk, would probably consider Amhuinnsuidhe to be far too nouveau because it was built in 1868.
  • Clad in stinking goatskin, Selkirk greeted the Englishmen who saw him from their ship.
  • This kind of hemlock is also abundant along the coast of British Columbia and in the Selkirk Mountains along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Forest Wealth of Canada
  • Unlike the fictional Robinson Crusoe, Selkirk had, at least initially, chosen his desert island over his privateer galley.
  • Travelling toilsomely one hot day between Peebles and Selkirk, with his tools over his back, he was overtaken by a carriage containing a grey-haired gentleman, whom he did not know.
  • I dismissed the thoughts as too disturbing and concentrated instead on Selkirk's poem.
  • Selkirk’s ordeal is believed to have been the inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719.

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