skiey
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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After saying that lightning is designless and self-created, he says, a few lines further on, that it is the Deity who bids ‘the thunder rattle from the skiey deep.’
From Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses by Smith, Horace
After twenty years continuous labour he found himself capable of the vulgarest, coarsest faults and failings from which the remotest skiey influence in his begetting might have saved him.
From Clara Hopgood by Rutherford, Mark
A poet took a flaw of pain, A hap of skiey pleasure, A thought had in his cradle lain, And mingled them in measure.
From New Poems by Thompson, Francis
And still shall brighter gild all skiey peaks Of noble daring, with this perfect day.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
Smith thrills thousands in daily flights and skiey acrobatics, including crazy dips and loops, startling dashes to the earth and illuminated flights through the night air.
From The Jewel City by Macomber, Ben
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