Lexicographical Neighbors of Scraighs
Literary usage of Scraighs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pat M'Carty, Farmer, of Antrim: His Rhymes, with a Setting by John Stevenson (1905)
"... the scraighs t o' whales Dragg'd ow'r the gravel by their tails, And fluster'd
at the cur'ous shapes O' bastes he never saw before. ..."
2. Pat M'Carty, Farmer, of Antrim: His Rhymes, with a Setting by John Stevenson (1903)
"... wi' the scraighs t o' whales Dragg'd ow'r the gravel by their tails, And
fluster'd at the cur'ous shapes O' bastes he never saw before. ..."
3. The Siller Gun: A Poem in Five Cantos by John Mayne (1836)
"... to redd them, ran between, Like Amazons, * And nought was heard, syne, owr
the green, But scraighs and groans ! ..."
4. The Complete Scottish and American Poems of James Kennedy by James Kennedy (1920)
"... On the brink o' despair he scraighs an' he clucks An' there's nane to pay
honor to him, For it looks as if a' bodie's gotten their fill O' the rantin' ..."
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