Lexicographical Neighbors of Shinties
Literary usage of Shinties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1890)
"... auld shinties, haith rankled an' lang, The sooty auld ... Their shins noo are
shinties, their taes are the runts, ..."
2. Threading My Way: Twenty-seven Years of Autobiography by Robert Dale Owen (1874)
"Take the shinties you have cut for this time; but if you should want more some
other day, don't steal them ; thieves never come to any good. ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"The pure fetters on his shinties grete Were of his bitter salte teres wete. "
Alas !" quod he, " Arcita, cosin min, ..."
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