Lexicographical Neighbors of Scurred
Literary usage of Scurred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"... squirt}—is that which is scurred or sent cutting along. To squirt, (formed
upon the ».)— To send, to cast, to eject, — (cutting through, dividing the ..."
2. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1856)
"Even the scared heathcock, partridges, and woodcocks scurred around us in peace
and safety. We had enough to do, indeed, to attend to the footing of our own ..."
3. Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States of North America by Theodore Dwight Weld, American Anti-Slavery Society, British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society (1841)
"New " Absconded, the mulatto boy Tom, his fingers '' 'n 'he scurred on n's "?nt hand,
and has a scar on his right cheek." Mr. John W. Walton, Greensboro', ..."
4. Younger American Poets, 1830-1890 by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Goodridge Bliss Roberts (1891)
"... And, king-like, flash up to the sun in the skies, O'er their path to the river.
But their banners, shot-scurred, and all darkened with gore, ..."
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