skiey
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
Whether heaven's eye should deck His skiey brow, Or the Child's star adorn heaven's forehead now.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
Give but my spirit its desired scope, - A giant in a pismire, I not grope; Deny it,—and an ant, with on my back A firmament, the skiey vault will crack.
From Poems by Thompson, Francis
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
A vision of Défago, eternally hunted, driven and pursued across the skiey vastness of those ancient forests fled like a flame across the dark ruin of his thoughts ...
From The Wendigo by Blackwood, Algernon
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