Lexicographical Neighbors of Spulyied
Literary usage of Spulyied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1845)
"... auld Maister, crossed in his pride, and spulyied in his purse, to see Charles
stick in the wark o' the ministry. But redde the gait there, ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"Wha is't that gars the greedy Banker prieve The maiden's tocher, but the maiden's
leave ? By you when spulyied o* her charming pose. ..."
3. Essays in History and Biography: Including The Defence of Mary Stuart by John Skelton (1883)
"One of the many Hughs of the Roses—they were all Hughs, indeed, father and son,
for five hundred years —" spulyied the lands and biggins" of the famous ..."
4. Domestic Annals of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Revolution by Robert Chambers (1874)
"... coming pertly to the very road of Pittenweem, spulyied a ship lying therein,
and misused the men thereof. This wrang could not be suffered by our men, ..."
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