Lexicographical Neighbors of Skellies
Literary usage of Skellies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Mortality by Walter SCOTT (1895)
"... eight inches in height" — " That is not my man," said Bothwell. " It is he —
it is the very man !" said Bothwell; — " skellies fearfully with one eye ? ..."
2. The English Lake District Fisheries by John Watson (1899)
"The skellies spawn in the winter among the mud at the bottom of the lake, he
states, and proceeds: " The Skelly is remarkable for this, no bait has ever ..."
3. Tales of My Landlord by Walter Scott, Jedidiah Cleishbotham, Robert Morton (1820)
"It is he—it is the very man,' said Bothwell, ' skellies fearfully with one eye ?'
' Right,' continued Grahame, ' rode a strong black horse taken from the ..."
4. A History of Architecture in All Countries, from the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1893)
"... known as beehive huts, are sometimes they selected a lonely if not a weird
spot square and sometimes circular in plan, when they selected the skellies. ..."
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