It was what he had been used to see as a boy when his parents were alive, for his father before him had been a "skeely" man in that line. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)
Soon not a boat was left in port; even those whose weather-wise "skeely" old skippers had counselled caution, at length, against their will and better judgment, were shamed into starting. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)
She was a kind woman, and seemed skeely about horned beasts. ❋ Unknown (2007)
On the last day of the time fixed by him, the skeely man was thatching a cottage at the Woollaw. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)
Ochiltree, is very skeely and auld-farrant about mony things, as the diseases of cows and horse, and sic like, and I am sure be disna want to be at Tannonburgh the day for naething, since he insists on't this gate; and, if your leddyship pleases, I'll drive him there in the taxed-cart in an hour's time. ❋ Unknown (1845)
Eh, man, Edie! but she was a trimmer --- it wad hae taen a skeely man to hae squared wi 'her! ❋ Unknown (1845)
I learned shortly, that his father and mother had arrived, which was one comfort; but that matters with poor Mungo were striding on from bad to worse, being pronounced, by a skeely doctor, to be in a galloping consumption -- and not able to be removed home, a thing that the laddie freaked and pined for night and day. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)
Eh, man, Edie! but she was a trimmer -- it wad hae taen a skeely man to hae squared wi 'her! ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
His man-servant was accordingly dispatched on horseback to the Well for Dr. Quackleben; while, upon the suggestion of one of his maids, "that Mrs. Dods was an uncommon skeely body about a sick-bed," the wench was dismissed to supplicate the assistance of the gudewife of the Cleikum, which she was not, indeed, wont to refuse whenever it could be useful. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
For the hand is truer to the soul than the face: it has no moods, it borrows no expressions, and she read the Richard that she knew and loved in these long fingers, stained by his skeely trade and scored with cuts commemorative of adventure and bronzed with golden weather, and the broad knuckles that were hollowed between the bones as usually only frail hands are, just as his strong character was fissured by reserve and fastidiousness and all the delicacies that one does not expect to find in the robust. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
His man-servant was accordingly dispatched on horseback to the Well for Dr. Quackleben; while, upon the suggestion of one of his maids, “that Mrs. Dods was an uncommon skeely body about ❋ Unknown (2008)
What-shall-call’um’s powder, and worthy Dame Trashem’s pill; and thus make widows and orphans, and cheat the regular and well-studied physician, in order to get the name of wise women and skeely neighbours, and so forth. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Trundle the carrier's cart, to Lauder, on a visit to her folks there; her mother (my gudemother like) having been for some time ill with an income in her leg, which threatened to make a lameter of her in her old age, the two doctors there -- not speaking of the blacksmith, and sundry skeely old women -- being able to make nothing of the business; so nobody happened to be with me in the room saving wee Benjie, who was lying asleep at the back of the bed, with his little Kilmarnock on his head, as sound as a top. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)
Eh, man, Edie! but she was a trimmer — it wad hae taen a skeely man to hae squared wi’ her! — ❋ Unknown (1584)
