Lexicographical Neighbors of Skryer
Literary usage of Skryer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narratives of Sorcery and Magic, from the Most Authentic Sources by Thomas Wright (1852)
"He was looking out for an assistant in his studies, fitted to serve the office
of inspector of his glass, or, as it was termed, skryer, a name not ..."
2. Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English by Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1864)
"... account for the credulity of Dee; for many years after their separation, and
to his last days, Dee sought for, and at length found, another "skryer. ..."
3. Yale Studies in English edited by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Yale university New Haven (1903)
"The necessity of the ' skryer' (ie seer) is the weakness that seems to us ridiculous
enough to quash the whole affair, but it did not. ..."
4. Witch, Warlock, and Magician: Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in by William Henry Davenport Adams (1889)
"... he relates some practices which took place on December 2, beginning his account
with this statement : ' I willed the skryer, named Saul, to looke into ..."
5. Witch, Warlock, and Magician: Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in by William Henry Davenport Adams (1889)
"Dee and his inefficient, unintelligent skryer then quarrelled, and the latter
was dismissed, leaving behind him an unsavoury reputation. EDWARD KELLY. ..."
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