skite
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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.
From In Accordance with the Evidence by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
I know the little skite like a top, Judge–and there’s one thing about her: She’s a loyal little body.
From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White
"Perhaps you think I'm off on the skite again, but I'm not."
From In Accordance with the Evidence by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
Therefore be assured that to-morrow I will make this vain-glorious Englishman to skite vinegar before all the world.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Peter Anthony Motteux
"Yes, the little skite and the ould sukee, the mawther," said Kisseck.
From She's All the World to Me by Sir Hall Caine
So he looked at Kaylajan and Kurajan and skited in his bag-trousers.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
I saw you in town this morning, skiting about, from pillar to post, and says I to myself, 'There's uneasiness under that fine bonnet!'
From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by William Henry Venable
Eh, lad, but you’ve been walking widdershins: You’d best turn deazil, crook your thumbs, my callant, And gather cowgrass, if you’d break the spell, And send the old witch skiting on her broomstick.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
"Come, Philip, me strong protector," he called, "let's be skiting."
From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter
