For the Malay tradition, cf. Skeat, Malay Magic, p. 205. From Wordnik.com. [Philippine Folk-Tales] Reference
(For similar Malayan superstitions, see Skeat 2, 303-304.). From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
Professor Skeat indeed estimates that of the words contained in. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
(Professor Skeat, Introd. to Vol. II of his 1871 edition.) 1778. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
'This is neither sense nor grammar as it stands' says Professor Skeat. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
Professor Skeat has given up beer with benefit to himself, and has almost given up wine. From Wordnik.com. [Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life] Reference
Depending on what you want that Skeat edited, it's probably available via the Oxford Text Archive. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: Amazon & Macmillan] Reference
Alfred was copied and vulgarised in this period; ed. Skeat, "The Gospels in Anglo-Saxon," Cambridge, 1871-87, 4 vols. 4to. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
See Skeat, and cf. note on 'soothsayer,' p. 10, l. From Wordnik.com. [The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar] Reference
A Malay description of female beauty is furnished by Skeat. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
Skeat, vol i; Verses to a Lady, p. 84; Journal Sixth, p. 33. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti] Reference
Skeat grew uneasy, feeling sure that something was the matter. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Claudius, A True Story] Reference
Morris and Skeat, Part II, pp. 23-34, and is easily accessible. From Wordnik.com. [English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day] Reference
'Shakespeare's Plutarch' (ed. Skeat, 1875), and 'Shakespeare's Holinshed'. From Wordnik.com. [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference
Professor Skeat, in his presidential address to the members of the Philological. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Blunders] Reference
Prof. Skeat thinks that the image of the tossed boat suggested lively movement. From Wordnik.com. [Playful Poems] Reference
Skeat -- words, that is, which have been registered, but which never really existed. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Blunders] Reference
Then Miss Skeat flattened the book before her with the paper-cutter, and began to read. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Claudius, A True Story] Reference
Skeat gives the original of the term as 'all'arme' (Ital.) a war cry of the time of the Crusades. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries] Reference
There were about a dozen entered, the most formidable of whom were Skeat, the present professor of. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Studies] Reference
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