Lexicographical Neighbors of Skails
Literary usage of Skails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1908)
"The misty reek, the clouds of rain, From tops of mountains skails, Clear are the
highest hills and plain, The vapours take the vales. ..."
2. Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets by George Gilfillan (1860)
"11 The misty reek,7 the clouds of rain From tops of mountain skails,8 Clear are
the highest hills and plain, The vapours take the vales. ..."
3. Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets by George Gilfillan (1860)
"-A -» -* -sill The misty reek,7 the clouds of rain From tops of mountain skails,8
Clear are the highest hills and plain, ... 8 'skails:' dissipates. ..."
4. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1902)
"The misty reek, the clouds of rain, From tops of mountains skails, Clear are the
highest hills and plain, The vapours take the vales. ..."
5. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"The misty reek, the clouds of rain From tops of mountains skails, Clear are the
highest hills and plain, The vapours take the vales. ..."
6. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1831)
"... for improvements on skails. S. Weight, of Shelton, for a manufacture .if ornamental
tiles, bricks, and quarries, for floors, pavements, ..."
7. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1822)
"... and called out, " Tak' a seat amang the lave there, lad, an' we'll a' look at
your braw breeks when *he kirk skails!" Being not only indifferent, ..."
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