Lexicographical Neighbors of Skeane
Literary usage of Skeane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Manuscripts of J. Eliot Hodgkin, Esq., F. S. A. of Richmond, Surrey by John Eliot Hodgkin, Gascoigne, Samuel Pepys, John Cordy Jeaffreson (1897)
"... he laid hold on the skeane and drew it " out of the fellowes hand, that was
striking at him Prendergast(«'c), but " the Lord ..."
2. Homer's Batrachomyomachia, Hymns and Epigrams: Hesiod's Works and Days by Homer, Hesiod, Musaeus, Juvenal (1858)
"... man purvey A skeane, or slaught'ring steel, and his right hand, Bravely
bestowing, evermore see mann'd 320 With killing sheep, that to my fane will flow ..."
3. Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormonde, K. P.: Preserved at by James Butler Ormonde, Caesar Litton Falkiner, Francis Elrington Ball (1903)
"... them upon promise of quarter, a Popish priest standing with his skeane in his
hand, watching for the coming forth of a minister then among the English, ..."
4. The Manuscripts of J. Eliot Hodgkin, Esq., F. S. A. of Richmond, Surrey by John Eliot Hodgkin, Gascoigne, Samuel Pepys, John Cordy Jeaffreson (1897)
"... he laid hold on the skeane and drew it " out of the fellowes hand, that was
striking at him Prendergast(sle), but " the Lord ..."
5. Ireland from the Restoration to the Revolution, 1660-1690 by John Patrick Prendergast (1887)
"O'Keeffe plunged his skeane, or long Irish knife, in her heart. There is a very
imperfect traditional account of Daniel O'Keeffe, but the above is all ..."
6. Ireland from the Restoration to the Revolution, 1660-1690 by John Patrick Prendergast (1887)
"The moss couch I brought thee To-day from the mountain, Has drunk the last drop
Of thy young heart's red fountain, For this good skeane beside me Struck ..."
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