Lexicographical Neighbors of Siccan
Literary usage of Siccan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"said Caleb ; ' ' but his honor will never learn how to bear himsell in siccan
cases." The village which they now approached had frequently afforded the ..."
2. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Twa unlucky red-coats were up for black-fishing, or some siccan ploy—for the neb
o' them's never out of mischief,—and they just got a ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"siccan tearing, and swearing, and tumbling, and squeeling, was never witnessed
in the memory of man, sin the building of Babel ; legs being likely to be ..."
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