skite
Example Sentences
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"Perhaps you think I'm off on the skite again, but I'm not."
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His "skite" had cost him a good deal of money, and he intended to make good some of the loss by economising on his marriage.
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So they hunted and they hal-looed; And the next thing they did sight, Was a great big bull-dog chasing them, And a farmer hollering "Skite!"
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Here is the nest, in under a bit of weedy bank, and yonder is the bird himself—the yellow-hammer, skite, or yellow bunting—looking as gay as a hornet, for well he knows that I will not disturb his treasures.
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"Yes, the little skite and the ould sukee, the mawther," said Kisseck.
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