Lexicographical Neighbors of Stievely
Literary usage of Stievely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Surgeon's Daughter and Castle Dangerous: With General Glossary by Walter Scott (1879)
"stievely, stiffly ; firmly. Stint, stop. Stir, sir. one and two years old.
Stirra, a lad. Stirred, disturbed or harmed. ..."
2. Tales of My Landlord by Walter Scott, Jedidiah Cleishbotham, Robert Morton (1820)
"Your father believed it unco stievely, though,' said the old man, to whom the
scepticism of his master gave obvious displeasure. ..."
3. New Letters of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle (1904)
"Tell me for one thing if you have got your rents paid you, if you have mall in
shaft stievely!^ Jane will send you "a word," many a word! ..."
4. New Letters of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle (1904)
"Tell me for one thing if you have got your rents paid you, if you have mall in
shaft stievely!] Jane will send you "a word," many a word! ..."
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