"Skew" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... progress, and it looks (For the straight line is getting very skew) As if our forces might surround VON KLUCK'S. Meantime, on right wing there is ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 • Various
... in the tone in which he'd have cried 'attention' to a raw recruit, without turning his head, and with a scornful momentary skew-glance ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... they were desperate gleaners, hopping, skipping, bleeding, amid a whizz of scythe-blades, for small wisps of booty. Nor was it long before the presidency of an ancient hoary Goat-Satan might be perceived, with skew-eyes and pucker-mouth, nursing a hoof on ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... shadowy representatives. All the breathing, throbbing, active beings, who for two hundred years had run along these narrow passages of the old house, and peered into half-open doors, or out of the small skew-topped windows—danced, sang, laughed and wept—died, and been carried out—were to each other as such umbery things; and I, the present subsisting shadow, received them all into my living microcosm, where, as in a mirror, they existed again, ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI • Various
... folks; they're desp'rit for Church an' King; they tell as ef the Lord gin the king a special license to set up in a big chair an' rewl creation; an' they think it's perticular sin to speak as though he could go 'skew anyhow. Now I believe the Lord lets folks find out what He does, out o' Scriptur; and I han't found nothin' yet to tell about kings bein' better than their neighbours, and it don't look as ef this king was so clever as common. I s'pose you ha'n't heerd what our Colony ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various |
