Lexicographical Neighbors of Sealchs
Literary usage of Sealchs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Table-talk of Shirley [pseud.]: Reminiscences of and Letters from Froude by John Skelton (1895)
"We were lying between Cann-riva an* Ellan-na-rhoan, in a braid open channel which
the blind rollers dinna reach. The wan rock was covered wi' sealchs o' the ..."
2. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1859)
"... and muscles,' it was formerly celebrated for 'the multitudes of sealchs' that
came into it, to whose ravages were ascribed its ' singularity in yielding ..."
3. Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West by Alexander Stewart (1883)
"... were the vomits respectively of the uncanny sealchs, of whom the Highlander
had always a superstitious dread, and of the largest of marine monsters, ..."
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