skiey
Americanadjective
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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 Mark Rutherford
Sublime on the towers of my skiey bowers Lightning my pilot sits; In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It struggles and howls at fits.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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 Francis Thompson
And Hermes, flying through the skiey ways Of high Olympus, spread sweet Psyche's praise, And bade the mighty gods obey his call.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
I said to dawn: Be sudden—to eve: Be soon; With thy young skiey blossoms heap me over From this tremendous Lover!
From Poems by Francis Thompson
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