| 单词 | skilly |
| 例句 | Arthur's "logic" is tougher than "toke," And much more insipid than "skilly." Punch, or the London Charivari, December 2, 1893 2012-04-23T02:00:33.287Z Officers' Wives getting pudding and pies, Soldiers' Wives get skilly! it said. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z The gruel was little remarkable for its delicate flavour and little celebrated for its nutritious qualities, and known by the luxurious cognomen of "skilly." The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy 2011-07-22T02:00:15.747Z For there may come a moment when You shall be mended, willy-nilly, With many more misguided men, Whose skill is undermined with skilly. Verse and Worse 2011-07-12T02:00:34.607Z A very shifty fellow, Pomfret, with a face the colour of skilly. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z For there may come a moment when You shall be mended willy-nilly, With many more misguided men, Whose skill is undermined with skilly. Perverted Proverbs A Manual of Immorals for the Many 2011-01-01T03:00:23.337Z I differ with you there, neighbour," replied the dominie; "for there is no calculating the value that clever and skilly hands can give to rude materials. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 Now and then he turned a little in his sleep, dreaming perhaps of feasts in Cockayne, perhaps of the skilly he had tasted in gaol, of love perhaps, bright-eyed, master of the gates. A Bed of Roses It's the skilly, it's the four-ounce system, I 'm afraid of. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly “Many a name I know, But never a name like this; O, where shall I find a skilly man Shall tell me what it is?” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) Eventually a local overseer was persuaded to see the man, and he ordered his removal to the workhouse, where, after considerable hardship, he was partly appeased with skilly.” New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism He dreads the prospect of daily exercise on the treadmill, he loathes the idea of picking oakum, and his gorge rises at the thought of brown bread and skilly. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) If it had been they’d ha’ skilly wiggled away at once. Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop I did want to hear what the skilly was.' The Convert It fell in the dusk of the night When unco things betide, The skilly captain, the Cameron, Went down to that waterside. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) "Same as you had before—bread and water, and skilly o' Sundays!" The History of "Punch" No,—study up spleen's nomenclature; Learn all the mad logic of hate, And then, though your style be like skilly, Your sense frothy Styx in full spate. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 15, 1893 They came on in a sort of echelon of four companies, close ordered, and not as a more skilly commander would make them, and the leading company took the right. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn I encounter, in the newspapers, gentlemen who have tasted workhouse skilly and soup, and who like it, and consider it well made and nourishing. The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography In payment for his lodging, his two chunks of dry bread and his pint of skilly, he had been compelled to pick his quantum of oakum. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile It will be skilly and bread for us if the mine fails.” Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea “No. It’s skilly,” said the boy, “and I ain’t full now I’m ever so hungry.” Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel We took him to a cothouse down at the foot of the wood, where he lay while a boy was sent for a skilly woman. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Take away your pauper—take care of your gentleman—go and chain him up, and give him his skilly. Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden The flogging had not nauseated him, but the bread and the skilly revolted his pampered tastes. Clayhanger It was skilly in the fullest sense of the word. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben “I say, do you have skilly for breakfast!” Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel The skilly dame came in with her clouts and washes. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Now come and have a look at my cucumber house, and then—ha, ha, ha! there’s something better than skilly for dinner, my boy.” Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden I feel as if I had made a sonnet out of skilly, and that is something. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 At twelve we were treated to a small dole of skilly, the most execrable food I have ever tasted even in a German prison camp. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben “I do not know what skilly is,” replied Helen. Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel And the crippled but gay-hearted heroes in blue Are a far finer product than wicked "old Q," Who ought to have lived in a prison on skilly Instead of a palace in mid Piccadilly. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917 “I say, though, did you know that he was a pauper, and lived on skilly?” Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden He tried to see himself making his own bed, and scrubbing his own floor, and standing at his cell door with a tin pot in his hand, waiting for his skilly. The Street Called Straight We had been served at our mid-day meal with a basin of evil-looking skilly. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben At stroke of noon some skilly is brought in; Such fare is not so delicate as thin. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 Treadmill, oakum, skilly, and the rest—one may as well go through with them quietly, for fear of something worse. Essays in Rebellion The skilly was in my stomach when I saw Raffles's face. Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman It consisted of gruel, or, in prison parlance, "skilly," and another little brown loaf. Prisoner for Blasphemy The dinner was revolting, but recognising that I was considered to be a criminal, and as such was condemned to prison fare I ventured to taste the nauseous skilly. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben The poet can rise superior to the sordidness of skilly. Without Prejudice The thought of paying that for nothing—worse than nothing, for six months in jail!—in an English jail!—pick oakum!—eat skilly!—that thought brought me to my senses. The Ivory Trail And I who had bolted my skilly at Wormwood Scrubbs, and tightened my belt in a Holloway attic, it was I who sat down to this ineffable repast! Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman Breakfast the next morning was a second edition of the tea—bread and skilly; and again I refreshed myself with the little loaf and cold water. Prisoner for Blasphemy When he pushed in the basin of skilly I picked it up and set it beside the others. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben The material of this feast was hot water, flour, and sugar mixed into a consistent skilly. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Just keep skin and bone together, bread and skilly. Ulysses "Men do get bread and skilly there certainly; but, Mrs. Finn, we can go into the library and smoking-room." The Prime Minister Then breakfast, same as supper, three parts o’ skilly an’ a six-ounce loaf.” The People of the Abyss The pannikin contained skilly, three-quarters of a pint, a mixture of Indian corn and hot water. The People of the Abyss I struggled manfully, but was mastered by my qualms, and half-a-dozen mouthfuls of skilly and bread was the measure of my success. The People of the Abyss This bitterness which lingered persistently in the mouth after the skilly had passed on, I found especially repulsive. The People of the Abyss Then you finish your task an’ ’ave supper, same as before, three parts o’ skilly any six ounces o’ bread. The People of the Abyss When first I started I couldn’t eat the skilly nor the bread, but now I can eat my own an’ another man’s portion.” The People of the Abyss But morning came, with a six o’clock breakfast of bread and skilly, which I gave away, and we were told off to our various tasks. The People of the Abyss This was the method by which we paid for our skilly and canvas, and I, for one, know that I paid in full many times over. The People of the Abyss “Three parts” means three-quarters of a pint, and “skilly” is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water. The People of the Abyss I let go, and they looked reproachfully at me, as though I had imperilled their chance for a bed and three parts of skilly. The People of the Abyss Having taken a cold bath on entering, I would be given for supper six ounces of bread and “three parts of skilly.” The People of the Abyss “Oh, wonderful skilly, that,” praised the Carpenter, and each looked eloquently at the other. The People of the Abyss He gave the diet for a day:- Breakfast—0.75 pint of skilly and dry bread. The People of the Abyss |
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