Lexicographical Neighbors of Scaured
Literary usage of Scaured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"... you see the clear sweep of the mountain from top to bottom, while to the north
the Shira flanking shoulder attracts the attention by its scaured sides, ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"One tome miscellaneous they'll add to your store, Resolving next year to print
four volumes I ' ve seen the day they would been scaured Wi' the Tolbooth or ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"I 've seen the day they would been scaured Wi' the Tolbooth or wi' the Guard, Or
maybe wud hae some regard On sic a gang. But whar 's the gude Tolbooth gane ..."
4. Through Masai Land: A Journey of Exploration Among the Snowclad Volcanic by Joseph Thomson (1887)
"... with black, uninhabited forest at the base and upper barren. region, fluted
and scaured into the appearance of a cyclopean file. ..."
5. Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song by Robert Hartley Cromek, Allan Cunningham, William Gillespie (1880)
"STARS, dinna keek in, And see me wi' Marie; And O, thou bonnie, bonnie moon,
Don't in our window tarrie ! O yestreen ye scaured me, O yestreen ye marred me, ..."
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