Lexicographical Neighbors of Scliff
Literary usage of Scliff
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1906)
"... but the dead desolation of the district weighed upon his spirits so that he
made no sound save the scliff of his boot-heels upon the beds of shale which ..."
2. A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose (1848)
"LAW, (William,) an able and pious livine, of the mystical class, was born at
King'sCliff, in Northamptonshire, ..."
3. Parts of the body in older Germanic and Scandinavian by Torild Washington Arnoldson (1916)
"... stroke or fall; NE. dial. scliff trail the feet on the ground in walking; walk
with a dull, heavy step; ..."
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