Lexicographical Neighbors of Skirred
Literary usage of Skirred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life by George Gordon Byron Byron (1830)
"... and skirred the country round to Alba, Tivoli, Frescati, Licenza, &c. &c.
; besides, I visited twice the Fall of Terni, which beats every thing. ..."
2. Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books by John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1719)
"... ami round skirred his loines and thighs with downy Gold And colours drpt in
Heav'n ; the third his feet Shadow'd from either heele with feather'd maile ..."
3. The Prairie: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper (1898)
"Suddenly one of the oldest, and the most ferocious of them all, broke out of the
ring, and skirred away in the direction of her victims, like a rapacious ..."
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