Lexicographical Neighbors of Spulyie
Literary usage of Spulyie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland by Scotland Privy Council (1902)
"... certain sometime of actions of spulyie at his instance before the Lords of
Session against the fol. 168, b. deceased Mr. George Butler and others, ..."
2. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge, Helen Child Sargent (1890)
"... My lord, this is a proud Seton, The rest will ride the thinner.' 11 • spulyie him
... him,' said Craigievar, ' O spulyie him, ..."
3. Old English Ballads by Francis Barton Gummere (1894)
"Out spak the brave baronne, owre the castell-wa: ' Are ye cum to spulyie and
plunder mi ha ? 6. ... Ther spulyie like reivers o wyld kettrin clan, ..."
4. Old English Ballads by Francis Barton Gummere (1894)
"Out spak the brave baronne, owre the castell-wa: ' Are ye cum to spulyie and
plunder mi ha ? 6. ... Ther spulyie like reivers o wyld kettrin clan, ..."
5. Chief British Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Selected Poems by William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1916)
"5 Out spak tlie brave baronne, owre the castell-wa : ' Are ye cum to spulyie 1
and plunder mi ha ? io в ' But gin ye be gentlemen, licht and cum in: Gin ye ..."
6. English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, Helen Child Sargent (1904)
"5 Out spak the brave baronne, owre the castell-wa: ' Are ye cum to spulyie and
plunder mi ha ? 6 ' But gin ye be gentlemen, licht and cum in: Gin ye drink о ..."
7. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... spulyie, ». a. To spoil, to lay waste ; to carry off a prey, S. Bot caer in
апе yit stil ... spulyie ..."
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