Lexicographical Neighbors of Skenes
Literary usage of Skenes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900 by George Smith, Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1897)
"... Aberdeenshire, by his wife Janet Lumsden, daughter of Lumsden of Cushnie.
According to tradition, the progenitor of the skenes was a younger son of ..."
2. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1835)
"... I may not be able morrow night, my princes," said Turto keep their skenes from
your throat." logh, " if 1 were to begin the lady's " Slay God forgive me ..."
3. Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of by Forster, R. P (1818)
"... by our party to go to skenes- borough. The offer was tempting; and with several
barrels of potash and butter which they took on board for that place, ..."
4. The History and Traditions of the Land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns by Andrew Jervise (1882)
"... The Stewarts — "The Douglas Cause "—The Earl of Home, Baron Douglas—The skenes of
... skenes ..."
5. Scottish Notes and Queries edited by John Bulloch (1893)
"Hundreds of skenes have doubtless acquired the name in relatively recent, as well
as in very- much older times, merely from being natives of the parish ..."
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