Lexicographical Neighbors of Skreighs
Literary usage of Skreighs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1865)
"It's pure democracy —that's what it is—and democracy means naething else, aa far
as I'm informed, but the reign of them that kena the least and skreighs the ..."
2. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1890)
"There's Jockey, the laird, he is unco' polite, An' boos like a fiddler frae
France ; But he hangs till it skreighs to a ..."
3. Modern Masterpieces of Short Prose Fiction by Henry James Collection (Library of Congress) (1911)
"... an' the wind skreighs—the wind an' her are a kind of sib, I'm thinkin'—an'
thae Merry Men, ..."
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