Lexicographical Neighbors of Sklents
Literary usage of Sklents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glen Desseray and Other Poems: Lyrical and Elegaic by John Campbell Shairp, Francis Turner Palgrave (1888)
"... While the sun shines fair aboon, And the licht sklents 2 saftly doun on holm
and ha'. And what would ye do there, At the bush aboon Traquair ? ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"... While the sun shines fair aboon, And the licht sklents saftly doun on holm
and ha'. " And what would ye do there. At the bush aboon Traquair? ..."
3. Horae Subsecivae by John Brown (1897)
"... This bonny simmer noon, While the sun shines fair aboon, And the licht sklents
saftly doun on holm and ha'. No longer unpublished. ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"< give a slanting direction, S. —Cynthia pale owre hill ли' glun sklents her pale
rays. A. Scott's' Poems, l! 2. To dart askance, in relation to tl To hear ..."
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