Lexicographical Neighbors of Skiffed
Literary usage of Skiffed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Mutual Friend by Charles ( Dickens (1865)
"In rowing costume?" Mortimer looks gloomy, and declines to answer. " I hope she
steered herself, skiffed herself, paddled herself, lar- boarded and ..."
2. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen: And on the by William Spalding, John Hill Burton, Frederick James Furnivall (1876)
"... they have skiffed I' the least of these was dreadful; and they have Fought
out together where Death's self was lodged, Yet FATE hath BROUGHT THEM OFF. ..."
3. The New Purchase: Or, Seven and a Half Years in the Far West by Baynard Rush Hall (1843)
"... and not more extravagant than our puerile school histories for beginners :*
I resist the temptation of having ourselves skiffed over in a ..."
4. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1843)
"... nice warm sun, skiffed down to Bagley, wandered through the wood, saw long
tail on a branch, happened to have air-gun, up gun, good aim, ..."
5. Circuit Journeys by Henry Cockburn Cockburn (1888)
"So we just sauntered by the shore,—and talked, and gathered shells, and skiffed
flat stones on the surface of the sea, and sat on rocks and lay on the turf, ..."
6. The Scottish Songs by Robert Chambers (1829)
"The first flight o' the winter's rime That on the kirkyard sward had faun, The
wanton wife skiffed aff his grave, A-kirking wi' her new gudeman. ..."
7. Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1860)
"... at my head—tied myself up to lampposts—thrown myself from de Monument at de
foot of London Bridge—and skiffed over Niagara : but it was no use, ma tear, ..."
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