How To Use skilly In A Sentence
- Three parts" means three-quarters of a pint, and "skilly" is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water. The People of the Abyss
- Breakfast at 6: 00 A.M. might be bread and a gruel called "skilly" made with oatmeal or moldy meat. Portrait of a Killer
- “If you couldn’t get it anywhere else, you could get it in the workhuss, a nice ‘ot bowl of soup called skilly, and bread better’n any one knows ‘ow to make now, reg’lar WHITE bread, gov’ment bread.” The War in the Air
- ` Three parts 'means three-quarters of a pint, and ` skilly' is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water. The Carter and the Carpenter
- To remove this evil influence, I was subjected to the following operation, which was prescribed and superintended by a neighbour "skilly" in such matters: -- A sixpence was borrowed from a neighbour, a good fire was kept burning in the grate, the door was locked, and I was placed upon a chair in front of the fire. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century
- Skilly dear, I'm in a fierce Bloomsbury boarding-house -- bores -- except for a Phe-nomenon -- little man of 35 or 40 with embryonic imagination & a virgin soul. Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man
- As to Shang Pin, avoid the edible of tall caloric hoosh and skilly , change with light weak, tastily wax gourd, towel gourd or bamboo shoot soup... etc give priority to.
- I let go, and they looked reproachfully at me, as though I had imperilled their chance for a bed and three parts of skilly. THE CARTER AND THE CARPENTER
- The reader will understand the position better if I remind him that the only material preparation I had in the morning for the task of defending myself against Sir Hardinge Giffard and Mr. Maloney was six ounces of dry bread and a little thin cocoa, which the doctor had ordered instead of the "skilly" to stop my diarrhoea. Prisoner for Blasphemy
- If you couldn't get it anywhere else, you could get it in the workhuss, a nice 'ot bowl of soup called skilly, and bread better'n any one knows' ow to make now, reg'lar WHITE bread, gov'ment bread. The War in the Air
