skean

Example Sentences

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He described the defeat as "the night of long skean dhus".

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2015

Last week at 98 he was the oldest Highland chieftain, with tasseled sporran and a jeweled skean dhus dirk in his stocking.

From Time Magazine Archive

I moved backward, hand on my skean, braced for a sudden rush.

From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

I edged backward, my own hand racing up for a skean I hadn't carried in six years, and fronted them squarely, hoping I could face down the prospect of a roughhouse.

From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

From his belt depended some instruments, with the use of which Macpherson was entirely unacquainted; together with a skean dhu of exquisite and uncommon workmanship.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Leighton, Alexander