"Skelp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Shackleton, sir, and if I sud dee, ye'll promise me a'e thing, as I a promised ye a many. I a said I'll never gie wife, nor barn, nor folk o' no sort, skelp nor sizzup more, and ye'll know o' me no more among the sipers. Nor never will Tom draw trigger, nor set a snare again, but in an honest way, and after that ye'll no make it a bootless bene for me, but bein', as I say, vicar o' Shackleton, and able to do as ...
— J.S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 • J.S. Le Fanu
... keepers approaching me, said, suspiciously, "Look a-here, young man, you make entirely too free with that ere beast. He's awful, he is, and some day he'll just go for you, if you ain't keerful. Why, this afternoon, he jest tore a gentleman's skelp clean off his head, and he was borne out in a fainting condition. Jest see the hair of him ...
— Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers • Various
... off old Hodsie's skelp and left him out to die, And if it hadn't been for me, he'd been in the sweet ...
— Cowboy Songs - and Other Frontier Ballads • Various |
