Lexicographical Neighbors of Stealt
Literary usage of Stealt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Writings of Robert Chambers by Robert Chambers (1847)
"... one comes up, repeating the following rhymes:— I never stealt ... nor never
intend to do, But weel I ken wha stealt him, and dern'd him in a cleugh, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... Life's lot to him was dealt; But came infirmity at length, Within that cot
lie dwelt ; Tranquil as falls the snow on snow, And slowly o'er him stealt. ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1830)
"I ken wha stealt the poor lassie's coo—it was Auld Robin Gray himsell.' I thought
it a bright idea, and treasured it up for a future occasion. ..."
4. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"He never stealt though he was poor, He never PEE'D his master's floor. PEEL,
veri, (common). — To undress ; to strip.—GROSE (1785). ..."
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