skeary

At the request of Serena (Billy's former nurse) her boy Cy was chosen to accompany his young master as body servant, one of his chief recommendations being that, naturally "skeary," he would be a safe companion; also, as his mother proudly averred, he was the fastest runner upon the plantation.

Plantation Sketches Margaret Devereux

It is not to be marvelled at that amid such place as this, for the first time visited, the horses were a little skeary; and their riders partook of the feeling, as all good riders do.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

He has an eye for a horse, the etarnal skirmudgeon! but the pony will be the death of him; for he's skeary, and will keep Ralph slow in the path.

Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

But the worst of it is, and that's what makes her so wild and skeary, her father, Abel Doe, turned Injun himself, like Girty, Elliot, and the rest of them refugee scoundrels you've h'ard of.

Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

Wife tol 'me to hide -- not risk m' life, women 're all thas way; skeary; skeary.

The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

'And you ought to have known better than to chuck all my tools overboard for' im, like a skeary greenhorn, 'retorted the morose carpenter.

The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897

Let it get dark with the night an 'no moon in the skies, an' the Lance could take you-all into his medicine lodge, an 'you'd hear the sperits flappin' their pinions like some one flappin 'a blanket, an' thar'd be whisperin's an 'goin's on outside the lodge an' in, while fire-eyes would show an 'burn an' glower up in the peak of the teepee; an 'all plenty skeary an' mystifiyin '.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

"Aye, she's a bit skeary aboot stopping here all alane."

Steve Young George Manville Fenn 1870

He's got no wife to be skeary about, and reckoned that, with his two hands, he could defend his log hut.

True to the Old Flag A Tale of the American War of Independence 1867

Besides, the lad knows nothing of the other side; there may be Injuns there, for aught he knows, and it's a skeary thing for a young un to take to the forest, especially with a gal in his charge.

True to the Old Flag A Tale of the American War of Independence 1867