skift

Updated: May 5, 2025

I was jest back from the same camp you're bound fur. 'Tain't five minutes since I crawled up out o' this yer skift." "What! And did you meet a party going the other way toward our camp, I mean?" "Ay," replied Meadows, standing up in the boat and guiding the legs of Philip as the latter descended from the wharf. "I watched 'em from the patch o' woods beyont Westervelt's.

Robert Neilson Stephens - Philip Winwood: A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.

I heard a malignant, crackly laugh by the fire, and turning, beheld that odious Joseph standing rubbing his bony hands, and quivering. "I wer sure he'd sarve ye out! He's a grand lad! He's getten t' raight sperrit in him! He knaws ay, he knaws, as weel as I do, who sud be t' maister yonder Ech, ech, ech! He made ye skift properly! Ech, ech, ech!" "Where must we go?"

Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights

"If it rains two hours, do 'ee see," continued Rube, without paying attention to the last interrogatory, "we needn't stay hyur, do 'ee see?" "Why not, Rube?" inquired Seguin, with interest. "Why, cap," replied the guide, "I've seed a skift o' a shower make this hyur crick that 'ee wudn't care to wade it. Hooray! it ur a-comin', sure enuf! Hooray!"

Mayne Reid - The Scalp Hunters

I know, howsomdever, they're mighty big freshets thur, as I hev sailed a skift more 'n a hundred mile acrosst one o' 'm, whur thur wan't nothin' to be seen but cypress tops peep in out o' the water. The floods, as ye know, come every year, but them ar big ones only oncest in a while.

Mayne Reid - The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire