How To Use Skilly In A Sentence
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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
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Breakfast at 6: 00 A.M. might be bread and a gruel called "skilly" made with oatmeal or moldy meat.
Portrait of a Killer
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“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
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` 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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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It consisted of gruel, or, in prison parlance, "skilly," and another little brown loaf.
Prisoner for Blasphemy
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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
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An organic dairy producer, Roskilly's make ice-cream, fudge and yoghurt with milk from their Jersey herd.
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'skilly' includes all the indelicacies of the season, with champagne,
Oscar Wilde
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This also was verified by the general chorus, and likewise the statement that there were "mugs as lives the twelvemonth 'round in the spike an' never get a blessed bit o 'tommy other than spike skilly an' bread.
THE SPIKE
