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Example sentences for "skelp"

Lexicographically close words:
skeins; skeletal; skeleton; skeletonized; skeletons; skelps; skelter; skep; skeps; skeptic
  1. An' then he corrals the Greaser's skelp to take back with him.

  2. When Tate crosses the Rio Grande with the army goin' back, he shorely has the skelp of every Mexican incloosive of said Princess.

  3. It was not every man, he proudly asserted, who could receive and survive a skelp o' the Deil's tail!

  4. My skelp isn't wuth as much as Bowie's is, anyhow.

  5. Faith, an' maybe he'd fetch her a skelp an' well she'd desarve it.

  6. In making tubes of an inch of internal diameter, a skelp four inches and a half broad is employed.

  7. He draws the skelp through two or more pairs of the above pincers or dies, each of less dimension than the preceding.

  8. In the first passage between the rollers, a circular revolving plate of iron is let down vertically between them, to prevent the edges of the skelp from overlapping, or even meeting.

  9. He would have lost both skelp an' standin' if he had.

  10. He's stealin' my Alizan hoss at the time, an' I can prove it by his skelp on my bridle now.

  11. This old bronco fancier's skelp is over on my bridle, if you thinks you'd know it.

  12. He oughter caper over an', as private as possible, arrogate to himse'f the skelp of this yere agent who abandons his relatif to them hostiles.

  13. The Poet, some guid angel help him, Or else, I fear, some ill ane skelp him!

  14. Moreover, he lets this Silver Phil go onharmed when by every roole his skelp is forfeit.

  15. And, indeed, she never did, and soon after that he met with his death from the skelp of an axe he got when he was standin' on Tower Hill.

  16. When Bob Mahony hit him the skelp on the head wid the sut bag, his eye popped out of his head on the road.

  17. What good's in ye that ye aren't able to skelp her?

  18. Says, yor wife is much to blame; And aw think 'twad be ne shame, To skelp her for the same, Mister Mayor!

  19. I'll tur-rn ye across my knee an' skelp ye, like a bairn!

  20. And when a skelp cleaves siffling doom, And vapours scyle a greenish ghaut, Rebellious vandals stamp their feet As rulling Cyons wield hell's prong.

  21. For God's sake, neighbours, run and help him, You'd wonder how the rascals skelp him.

  22. I knowed what he was goin' to do--skelp my father!

  23. Mord' fetches him down like he did the fellow that was goin' to skelp Father.

  24. They'd druther marry a Injin than a nigger, but they couldn' be bought with no money to trust their skelp with a Injin.

  25. It is not only the best descriptions of iron they plate with: twopenny skelp is more in use than any.

  26. Illustration] Twopenny, or Wednesbury skelp is coarser in the spiral still, and running so angular as not to be very difficult to detect.

  27. Threepenny skelp iron" is made from an inferior quality of scrap to that from which "charcoal iron" is made; but unlike it, there is no pretension of quality.

  28. I'se gie ye a harder skelp nor that next time, sae mind yer tongue!

  29. I could not skelp any of them for being late that morning.

  30. I could no longer contain, so smothering my laughter the best way I could, I left him, and was in the act of ascending when I heard our friend Skelp again maundering to himself.

  31. Lord, that Saunders Skelp should have been left to dree such weird!


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skelp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.