skellington

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So he rowed around by the North Promontory, where the great caves were, and much as they were enjoying the ride, they soon began to feel the heat of the sun That's Dead Man's Cave, 'cause a skellington was found there," observed the child as they passed a dark, yawning mouth in the cliff.

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  • Some problems with the skellington but this should work. —  PyWeek Diary Entries
  • Emmeline fainted to the ground Her father the noble lord was always out at his office and didn't know how the horty step-mother treated Emmeline, but she grew thinner and paler every day, and all her face went transparant and the blue veins were trased in their pallor and her little hand was like a skellington's; and the cruel step-mother made her do all the scrubbing and hard work, and treated her like a menient. —  In the Mist of the Mountains
  • So he rowed around by the North Promontory, where the great caves were, and much as they were enjoying the ride, they soon began to feel the heat of the sun That's Dead Man's Cave, 'cause a skellington was found there," observed the child as they passed a dark, yawning mouth in the cliff. —  The Sea Fairies
  • "Instead of my skellington he'll carry home her living carcass before long. —  The Woodlanders
  • Dressed all in white with skellington hands and heads, "said Mary. —  Rainbow Valley
 

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