10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SKIMBLE-SCAMBLE»
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Harry Highstreet. The Skimble-Scamble Soiree of the Skua and the Skink
Foreword Skimble-scamble may be defined, among other things, as nonsensical.
Read Aloud Series 115 The Skimble-Scamble Soiree.
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A glossary; or, Collection of words ... which have been ...
A modern poet has revived it : It skills not, boots not, step by step to trace His
youth. Lord Byron's Lara, I. Stanza 2. Examples of it as an active verb are found.
See Todd. Skimble-scamble, a. Rambling, unconnected ; from tcamb/e, by a
common ...
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Dictionary of obsolete and provincial English
Half- boots. Dorset. Skilvings, s. The wooden frame fixed on a cart to widen it.
Skim, v. To mow. SKiMBlE-scAMBlE,a4/- Rambling; unconnected. Here's a sweet
deal of scimhle-scamble stuff. Taylor, Descr. of a Wanton. Skime, (1)*. A ray of
light.
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Authorial Divinity in the Twentieth Century: Omniscient ...
|with] her contemporaneous sense of being an outsider'; . . . and [with] her very
diction — for Woolf 's 'my skimble-skamble works' on April 11, 1938 [diary] . . .
soon becomes Miss LaTrobe's 'writing this skimble-scamble stuff" (Blodgett, "The
...
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
SKIMBLE-SCAMBLE, a. Rambling, unconnected ; from scumble, by a common
mode of reduplication. And such a deal of tkinible-scinnble stuff As puts me from
my faith. 1 Hen. IV. iii. 1. Mr. Steevens found it in Taylor also : Here's a sweet deal
...
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The North American Review
The wind blazed and racketerl through the narrow space between the house and
the hill. Above, the flakes shaded and mottled the sky, and fell twirling, pitching,
skimble-scamble, and anon slowly and more regularly, as in a 1846 .] Jilargaret.
Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge, 1846
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Renaissance Drama in Action
... Jeffreysdescribed the ending ofBrome's play as 'conventional andimprobable',
inneed of change since 'grown ups will not happily sit through such skimble
scamble stuff'.This view wasbased, however, notonly onhis own response to
thetext ...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare
The following extract will probably be sufficient to satisfy the reader with this "
skimble scamble stuff," as Hotspur terms it. " And after thys Goote Seyde Merlyon
shall com a boore out of Wyndesere that shall be called the Myldyste and the ...
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, 1821
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with illustr. by K. Halswelle
... motive, which is neither more nor less than that Mr S. has been laughed at a
little in some recent publications, as he was of yore in the "Anti-Jacobin" by his
present patrons. Hence all this " skimble-scamble stuff" about "Satanic," and so
forth.
George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.), 1861
Hence all this " skimble-scamble stuff " about " Satanic," and so forth. However, it
Is worthy of him — " quaiis ab incepto." If there is any thing obnoxious to the
political opinions of a portion of the public in the following poem, they may thank
Mr.
