Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheety
Literary usage of Sheety
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1846)
"Who would lose the sheety lake in which nothing is reflected but evening's own
sky, and the " upland fallows grey," and the last cool gleam ! ..."
2. First Report of a Geological Reconnoissance of the Northern Countries of by David Dale Owen (1858)
"At Dotson's farm, on that stream, underneath these formations, a black, bituminous,
sheety shale crops out, similar to the shale of Wiley's Cove, ..."
3. Life of William Blake: With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings by Alexander Gilchrist (1880)
"my turban of thick clouds around my lab'ring head ; ' I fold the sheety waters
as a mantle round my limbs. ' Yet the red sun and moon 'And all the ..."
4. Essays on the Picturesque, as Compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful by Uvedale Price (1810)
"Collins indeed in his Ode to Evening, has used this kind of expression with great
propriety: Where some sheety lake Cheers the lone heath; i For water on a ..."
5. Annual Report by Dept. of Geology and Natural Resources, Indiana (1905)
"Bone coal and Murk sheety shale 4 0 11. Coal VII 5 0 12. Under-clay 3 0 13. ...
Black sheety bituminous shale 3 10 15. Coal VIb 1 8 16. ..."
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