skiey
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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A few lines before, he tells us that it is the Deity who bids "thunder rattle from the skiey deep."
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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
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
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
For fire o'ermastered And licked up many things and burnt away, What time the impetuous horses of the Sun Snatched Phaethon headlong from his skiey road Down the whole ether and over all the lands.
From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery
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