Lexicographical Neighbors of Slokens
Literary usage of Slokens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Fish: A Treatise on Trout & Trout-fishers by William Earl Hodgson (1907)
"It slokens the grun', and it slokens the ewes; and, mair than that, 'tis the wull
o' God." We often hear talk about " abnormal weather. ..."
2. How to Fish: A Treatise on Trout & Trout-fishers by William Earl Hodgson (1907)
"... who, in Court, had been grumbling at east wind and mist. " What ails ye, mon,
at the wind ? What ails ye at the mist ? It slokens the groin', ..."
3. How to Fish: A Treatise on Trout & Trout-fishers by William Earl Hodgson (1907)
"It slokens the grun', and it slokens the ewes; and, mair than that, 'tis the wull
o' God." We often hear talk about " abnormal weather. ..."
4. A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's by Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1888)
"... foul words mony Foul water slokens fire. Far sought and dear bought is gude
for ladies. For faut o' wise men fools sit on binks. ..."
5. Fraser's Magazine by Robert Louis Stevenson (1861)
"and it slokens the ewes, and (taking off his bonnet) it's the wull of God!'
I think it is, however, some further consolation to know that our present misery ..."
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