"skilly" is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE CARTER AND THE CARPENTER] Reference

Breakfast at 6: 00 A.M. might be bread and a gruel called "skilly" made with oatmeal or moldy meat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Portrait of a Killer]

'skilly' includes all the indelicacies of the season, with champagne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) His Life and Confessions] Reference

The skilly dame came in with her clouts and washes.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

And do my month in chockee, and eat my skilly free.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892] Reference

We had been served at our mid-day meal with a basin of evil-looking skilly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference

When he pushed in the basin of skilly I picked it up and set it beside the others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference

We took him to a cothouse down at the foot of the wood, where he lay while a boy was sent for a skilly woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

Just keep skin and bone together, bread and skilly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

"You do get good skilly at 'Ackney," said the Carter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People of the Abyss] Reference

` You do get good skilly at 'Ackney,' said the Carter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carter and the Carpenter] Reference

If it had been they'd ha 'skilly wiggled away at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop] Reference

The skilly was in my stomach when I saw Raffles's face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman] Reference

The poet can rise superior to the sordidness of skilly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Prejudice] Reference

Dere’s tay spikes, and cocoa spikes, and skilly spikes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference

'' Ow'd yer like the skilly? 'another shouted up at the girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Convert] Reference

I feel as if I had made a sonnet out of skilly, and that is something.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar Wilde]

A can o’ hot water wid some bloody oatmeal at de bottom; dat’s skilly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference

"I say, though, did you know that he was a pauper, and lived on skilly?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden] Reference

But morning came, with a six o'clock breakfast of bread and skilly, which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People of the Abyss] Reference

Digitized by Google d4i trial of skilly if we may be allowed the etpres "".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons] Reference

The big fellow was pulpier than ever; his complexion the colour of skilly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hill A Romance of Friendship] Reference

'ave supper, same as before, three parts o' skilly any six ounces o 'bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE CARTER AND THE CARPENTER] Reference

"No. It's skilly," said the boy, "and I ain't full now I'm ever so hungry.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel] Reference

Ih war at first is made mik mokmasrd skilly And soldiers clumsily each other hiU.    From Wordnik.com.  [British theatre] Reference

"Oh, wonderful skilly, that," praised the Carpenter, and each looked eloquently at the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People of the Abyss] Reference

` Oh, wonderful skilly, that, 'praised the Carpenter, and each looked eloquently at the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carter and the Carpenter] Reference

The flogging had not nauseated him, but the bread and the skilly revolted his pampered tastes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clayhanger] Reference

Dey don’t give you skilly in Romton, t’ank Godleastways, dey didn’t de last time I was here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference

Yet nymphs lesser fibred, in doubt oi their skilly Will tremble and gaze at the base of the hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The pin-basket to the children of Thespis. With notes historical, critical, and biographical] Reference

"Same as you had before -- bread and water, and skilly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

Salt horse and skilly will do, if nothin 'else is handy. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph Granger's Fortunes] Reference

All the same, I've had to work hard for the black bread and skilly. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of Judgment] Reference

I'll have to eat skilly, you know, and pick oakum, and get my hair cut. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Here are Ladies] Reference

(skilly), and at half-past five it gets a piece of dry bread and a tin of water for its supper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People of the Abyss] Reference