Lexicographical Neighbors of Skeltered
Literary usage of Skeltered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas: A Narrative of the Discovery of by Francis Leopold M'Clintock (1860)
"... and probably would have been had he known of the existence of a ship-channel,
skeltered by King William Island from this tremendous " polar pack" 1 . ..."
2. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1887)
"... meaning an island skeltered by islands. Hence its poetic name, Shelter Island.
Two hundred and thirty-six years ago, in June, 1651, this whole island ..."
3. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace (1872)
"It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered
away as I walked through the village ; and one girl about ton or twelve years ..."
4. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace (1886)
"It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered
away as I walked through the village ; and one girl about ten or twelve years ..."
5. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace (1902)
"It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered
away as I walked through the village ; and one girl about ten or twelve years ..."
6. The Malay Archipelago, the Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace (1877)
"It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered
away as I walked through the village ; and one girl about tea or twelve years ..."
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