Lexicographical Neighbors of Shillala
Literary usage of Shillala
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"It is easier, a damned deal easier, to »hoot an eagle than a peacock. But the
easiest way of any is to knock an eagle down with я shillala. MR BEWARB. ..."
2. The Library of American Biography by Jared Sparks (1848)
"On the 20th of December, he went down to Chester to embark on board the shillala,
an armed ship of sixteen guns. On the 23d he put on shore, at Wilmington, ..."
3. The Struggles (social, Financial and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby [pseud by David Ross Locke (1872)
"McGuire hed his shillala in his hand. ... compelled him to drop that shillala on
their heds ez usual, ..."
4. Routledge's Every Boy's Annual by Edmund Routledge (1865)
"But Harry knew that the gun and the shillala would be insufficient to drive off
such a host; and he would not relax speed until they reached the empty ..."
5. Harry and Lucy: With Other Tales by Maria Edgeworth (1836)
"That will never do, that's too dismal a ditty by half, Andy ; try the sprig of
shillala; man alive, pluck up a spirit. (Andy attempts to sing. ..."
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