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Definition of Skirls
1. skirl [v] - See also: skirl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skirls
Literary usage of Skirls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"On emerging into it from Warling- wood, some miles in depth, in the skirls of
which Hartington lies nestled, the broad sunshine, enhanced by such continuous ..."
2. Letters of Captain Geo. Hamilton Perkins, U.S.N. by George Hamilton Perkins, George Eugene Belknap (1908)
"... when they and she were skirls. It seemed very odd to talk to an American woman
about such things and such people in the center of the kingdom of Siam. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"And it may be," said Adam, resuming his story, " that summat that I said, or
summat that I lookit, just put his bluid a bit up ; for oot he skirls (but it ..."
4. Studies in Prose and Poetry by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1894)
"He skirls on the pipes—skirls means screeches. When you first hear him, he'll
make your stomach ache. You'll get used to that—and ..."
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