Lexicographical Neighbors of Spunkies
Literary usage of Spunkies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Ancient British, Roman, & Saxon Antiquities & Folk-lore of Worcestershire by Jabez Allies (1852)
"Highlands of Scotland," pubh'shed in 18^3, the spunkies are described as follows :— "
Whenever the traveller had the misfortune to lose his way, ..."
2. On the ancient British, Roman, and Saxon antiquities of Worcestershire by Jabez Allies (1852)
"In Stewart's " Superstitions of the^Highlands of Scotland,"published in 1823,
the spunkies are described as follows :— " Whenever the traveller had the ..."
3. The Vale of Strathmore: Its Scenes and Legends by James Cargill Guthrie (1875)
"Noo, Robert," she coaxingly continued, at the same time easing him of his
greatcoat, " tell's far ye've been, and if thae mischievous spunkies hae dune ony ..."
4. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Fays, spunkies, Kelpies, a1, they can explain them, The Brigs of Ayr. 4. Spur.
B-rg-ne gaed up, like spur an' whip, A Fragment. 4. Nae whip nor spur, ..."
5. A Book of Boyhoods, Chaucer to MacDowell by Eugénie Mary Fryer (1920)
"... "with the strange attraction of fear," were forever hovering about the moss-grown
retaining wall of the kirkyard looking for "spunkies," and many a ..."
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