Lexicographical Neighbors of Skurries
Literary usage of Skurries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"People are very shy about receiving her in society; and when she goes to sing at
a concert, Miss Prim starts up and skurries off in a state of the greatest ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1903)
"... Na- !i poleon took pains to announce himself by sundry little skurries among
a pile of fallen leaves. Then, sure that his enemy was alert and ready, ..."
3. Oriental Rugs by John Kimberly Mumford (1902)
"Commerce skurries along, like a man with a sack, in the path where splendor has
gone by, picking up fragments. He mounts a box, now and then, to auction to ..."
4. Oriental Rugs by John Kimberly Mumford (1902)
"Commerce skurries along, like a man with a sack, in the path where splendor has
gone by, picking up fragments. He mounts a box, now and then, to auction to ..."
5. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1899)
"Till with the stir they make Out skurries a great snake. " O Lord ! O me ! Alack !
Ah me ! alack ! " And then in heavy drops down comes the rain. ..."
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