Lexicographical Neighbors of Skippings
Literary usage of Skippings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Patents for Inventions: Abridgements of Specifications Relating to Sugar. A by Great Britain Patent Office, Patent Office, Bennet Woodcroft, Great Britain (1871)
"... or by the addition of a due quantity of colder eva- " porated liquor as it
has been usual to give heat by what is " called skippings, or by both, ..."
2. A Report of the Trial of the Action Brought by Messrs. Severn, King, and Co by William Brodie Gurney (1820)
"A. It did not rise the first three skippings, they used it nine times in a day.
A. Three skippings are one filling: the last time it was heated the oil ..."
3. The Human Mind, a Text-book of Psychology by James Sully (1892)
"Thus he found that a series formed out of one already repeated with skippings of
even seven syllables could be learnt in less time than a perfectly new ..."
4. Reports from the Secretary of the Treasury: Of Scientific Investigations in by Richard Sears McCulloh, Alexander Dallas Bache (1848)
"By the refiners who employ the vacuum pan, the skippings are heated in the cooler,
as described above, and then poured, by means of copper basins or buckets ..."
5. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1895)
"... and there are no skippings, except such as have been made on very urgent grounds.
Letter to Mr«. Bray, Tuesday, 6th June, 1354. Letter to Mrs. Bray, ..."
6. George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals by George Eliot (1885)
"I expect " Feuerbach " will Letter to be all in print by the end of next week,
and there are Friday, Mrs. Bray, no skippings, except such as have been made ..."
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