172 examples of skelton in sentences

If anything is wanted in the way of furniture, drapery, ornament, &c., you need only write to John Skelton, Esq., Spring-garden, London, stating what is required, and he will order and send them down.

It was addressed to John Skelton, Esq., and began as follows.

"My Dear Skelton, "You are, doubtless, surprised at my long silence, but I have had nothing very particular to say.

This letter was followed, in a day or two, by the arrival of Skelton, a well-dressed, languid, impertinent London tuft-hunter, a good deal faded, with a somewhat sallow and puffy face, charged with a pleasant combination at once of meanness, insolence, and sensualityjust such a person as Sir Wynston's parasite might have been expected to prove.

After some ineffectual attempts, therefore, to overawe and astonish his host, Mr. Skelton became aware of the fruitlessness of the effort, and condescended to abate somewhat of his pretensions.

Marston could not avoid inviting this person to pass the night at his house, an invitation which was accepted, of course; and next morning, after a late breakfast, Mr. Skelton observed, with a yawn"And now, about this bodypoor

" "H's notion was to have him buried as near the spot as may be," said Skelton.

"Well?" drawled Skelton.

"Why, as the wish of the parties is to have him buriedpoor fellow!as quietly as possible, I think he might just as well be laid there as anywhere else!" "Had I desired it, Mr. Skelton, I should myself have made the offer," said Marston, abruptly.

"Then you don't wish it?" said Skelton.

"Perhaps," replied Skelton, for want of something better to say, and with a callous sort of levity; "perhaps you hold the ideasome people dothat murdered men can't rest in their graves until their murderers have expiated their guilt?" Marston made no reply, but shot two or three lurid glances from under his brow at the speaker.

"Well, then, at all events," continued Skelton, indolently resuming his theme, "if you decline your assistance, may I, at least, hope for your advice?

I believe you are right," said Skelton, glad to be relieved of the trouble of thinking about the matter; "

" In accordance with this declaration the body was, within four-and-twenty hours, removed to Chester, and buried there, Mr. Skelton attending on behalf of Sir Wynston's numerous and afflicted friends and relatives.

* JOHN SKELTON Was born of an ancient family in Cumberland, he received his education at Oxford, and entering into holy orders was made rector of Dysso in Norfolk in the reign of Henry VIII.

Of the known authors of Moralities, two of the best are John Skelton, who wrote "Magnificence," and probably also "The Necromancer"; and Sir David Lindsay (1490-1555), "the poet of the Scotch Reformation," whose religious business it was to make rulers uncomfortable by telling them unpleasant truths in the form of poetry.

To this period belong, GEOFFREY CHAUCER, 1367-1400 JOHN SCOGAN, 1400-1413 JOHN KAY, 1465- ANDREW BERNARD, 1486- JOHN SKELTON, 1509-1529 EDMUND SPENSER, 1590-1599 SAMUEL DANIEL, } MICHAEL DRAYTON, } 1600-1630 BEN JONSON, } II.

James A. R. Moffatt & Margaret Skelton Cockburn (C); 27Sep65; R369142.

SEE Clarke, Harry F. SKELTON, CHARLES L. Riding west on the Pony Express.

Ida M. Skelton (W); 8Oct65; R370333.

SKELTON, IDA M. Riding west on the Pony Express.

SEE Skelton, Charles L. SKILLERN, HELEN REGAN.

Poetic diction in the English Renaissance from Skelton through Spenser.

R108076, 27Feb53, Edmund W. Sinnott & L. C. Dunn (A) SKELTON, J. R., illus.

Life and death of the wicked Lady Skelton.

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