Lexicographical Neighbors of Skirring
Literary usage of Skirring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... they bounded on, and away, away, away the next moment were we skirring over
the plain, like the steed of the Muses on a steeple-chase. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1826)
"... and has told the result of his observation with a good deal of light humour.
An adventurous little schooner of this kind skirring the coast in ..."
3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... they bounded on, and away, away, away the next moment were we skirring over
the plain, like the steed of the Muses on a steeple-chase. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... when a skirring shower gaed by—I had to wise her in within its faulds—and her
head had to be held down by an affectionate pressure, almost like a faint ..."
5. Graham's Magazine by George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
"... and most especially lhat indescribable manœuvre of suddenly expanding Ihe
wings and skirring them on the ground with a noise altogether alarming. ..."
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