skreigh
- a variation of skreegh.
Example Sentences
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When thou an’ I were young an’ skeigh, An’ stable-meals at fairs were dreigh, How thou wad prance, an’ snore, an’ skreigh, An’ tak the road!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
I had it a' ower, my lee lane, afore the skreigh o' day.
From Malcolm by MacDonald, George
No luck sent ye back to hear the skreigh o' the lass, but the whisper of the guid Father withoot whose permission not even a sparrow falls to the ground.
From Man Size by Raine, William MacLeod
"The skreigh of a Tammie Norie," answered Ochiltree—"I ken the skirl weel."
From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir
I luffed for my life, for I thocht we were over near Soa; but na, it wasna that, it was puir Sandy Gabart’s deid skreigh, or near-hand, for he was deid in half an hour.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Stevenson, Robert Louis
