Lexicographical Neighbors of Enskyed
Literary usage of Enskyed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakspeare's Heroines: With Twenty-six Portraits of Famous Players in Character by Jameson (Anna) (1897)
"I hold you as a thing enskyed and sainted ... and look down upon the world as if
already enskyed and sainted ; and yet, when brought in contact with that ..."
2. The Monthly Review (1832)
"I hold you as a thing enskyed and sainted; By your renouncement; an immortal
spirit, And to be talked with in sincerity, As with a saint." . ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1845)
"According to the plain principles of that book, we believe that the most ' enskyed
and sainted nun ' (in Shakspeare's beautiful words) is as far below, ..."
4. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"... the plays:— "I hold you as a thing enskyed and sainted; By your renouncement,
an immortal spirit; And to be talked with in sincerity, As with a saint. ..."
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