Lexicographical Neighbors of Sculs
Literary usage of Sculs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Then they put upon his head, cloth painted with the bones and sculs of dead men,
and next they cloathed him with a blacke garment & upon that another blew, ..."
2. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1841)
"The sculs that he rowes with are made of sextons spades, which had bin ...
a rank of dead mens sculs, the worst of them hauing bin an Emperor as great as ..."
3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Then they put upon his head, cloth painted with the bones and sculs of dead men,
... and both were painted with the figures of dead mens sculs and bones. ..."
4. Kind-heart's Dream: Containing Five Apparitions with Their Invectives by Henry Chettle, Edward Francis Rimbault (1841)
"The sculs that he rowes with are made of sextons spades, which had bin hung vp
at the end of some great plague; the bench he sits vpon, a rank of dead mens ..."
5. Kind-heart's Dream: Containing Five Apparitions with Their Invectives by Henry Chettle, Edward Francis Rimbault (1841)
"The sculs that he rowes with are made of sextons spades, which had bin hung vp
at the end of some great plague; the bench he sits vpon, a rank of dead mens ..."
6. Epea Pteroenta, Or, The Diversions of Purley by John Horne Tooke, Richard Taylor (1840)
"The fishes come in SHOALS, SHOLES, or sculs' (which is the same participle, j"C
being differently pronounced as SH or BK) ; that is, They come in separate ..."
7. Corrigenda and Explanations of the Text of Shakspere by George Gould, J.S. Virtue & Co (1881)
"The word " sculs " is not entirely obsolete. Fishermen pronounce it " schools ".
It has the same meaning as shoals. Act 5, sc. 6. " My rest and negligence. ..."
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