Many a name I know, But never a name like this; O, where shall I find a skilly man Shall tell me what it is?
It fell in the dusk of the night When unco things betide, The skilly captain, the Cameron, Went down to that waterside.
The verdict run thus: "Application on behalf of Canteen Skilly refused, as apparently she married off the strength of the regiment.
He sent in a proper formal application to the regimental powers, requesting that increased feline rations be ordered as "subsistence for Canteen Skilly and family of five.
O Skilly Woman, Skilly Woman, it's late we are," said Black Murdo.
Inside, the Skilly One went like a witch, beak-nosed and half-blind.
I am for Inneraora for the Skilly Woman for my wife, child of your own clan.
The Skilly Woman, with the plaid pulled tight over her grey hair, sat with sunk eyes on a stone and waited without wonder.
Then the Skilly Woman set him on the wet windy side of the door, and went about with busy hands.
He was pushing his dirk in the sand to clean it, when his eye fell on the Skilly Woman hirpling nimbly down to the shore.
He found the Skilly Woman, who put before him sour milk and brose.
For all she was skilly the old dame had no thought of the woman sinking.
The Skilly Woman put down her head and listened with wonder.
The Lost Piobaireachd asks for skilly tripling, but Macruimen himself could not get at the core of it for all his art.
The best thing Oi know Is a sixer or so On skilly an' wather in jail, me bhoy.
And I who had bolted my skilly at Wormwood Scrubbs, and tightened my belt in a Holloway attic, it was I who sat down to this ineffable repast!
The skilly was in my stomach when I saw Raffles's face.
The skilly dame came in with her clouts and washes.
We took him to a cothouse down at the foot of the wood, where he lay while a boy was sent for a skilly woman.
They came on in a sort of echelon of four companies, close ordered, and not as a more skilly commander would make them, and the leading company took the right.
The flogging had not nauseated him, but the bread and the skilly revolted his pampered tastes.
Bastille skilly and still see his mother weeping round the knees of a powerful god named Shushions.
Then breakfast, same as supper, three parts o' skilly an' a six-ounce loaf.
This was the method by which we paid for ourskilly and canvas, and I, for one, know that I paid in full many times over.
I struggled manfully, but was mastered by my qualms, and half-a-dozen mouthfuls of skilly and bread was the measure of my success.
This bitterness which lingered persistently in the mouth after the skilly had passed on, I found especially repulsive.
You do get good skilly at 'Ackney," said the Carter.
It is the rule of the casual ward that a man who enters must stay two nights and a day; but I had seen sufficient for my purpose, had paid for my skilly and canvas, and was preparing to run for it.
When first I started I couldn't eat the skilly nor the bread, but now I can eat my own an' another man's portion.
Skilly had heard he was dead, and his wife had come to live in these parts, but there was no knowing what was true and what wasn't.
Really it was not on purpose, but old Zack Skilly was indulging me with some of his ancient smuggling experiences, in what he evidently views as the heroic age of Rockquay.
Any workhouse-master who shall neglect to skim the fat off the water in which thirty-six paupers have been bathed, shall be forced to live upon skilly for five days, and work for eight hours at the crank.
Now I think behind there is a tale, Which will make this bright pair to bewail, For on skilly and whack they might regale, Those beautiful he-she ladies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skilly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
