Usage of "skimmington ride"

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Folk custom.

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Examples for "shivery"

She said it made her go all cold and shivery all over. 
 Tell me, pretty maiden 

My bedroom's right above the kitchen and I woke up all shivery. 
 Coyote dreams 

Her body throbbed, shivery tremors racing in riotous arcs across her skin. 
 Four dukes and a devil 

Abruptly his mind grasped the thread linking together all this shivery confusion. 
 Gather, Darkness! 

It makes me feel shivery to even think of such a thing! 
 The Little Colonel's Hero 

He was delighted with my charivari, and then he said to me: 
 Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon 

But I can tell you that a charivari is not always a joke. 
 Roughing It in the Bush 

A few days after the charivari affair, Mrs. D--stepped in to see me. 
 Roughing It in the Bush 

There will be a charivari in my rooms tonight. 
 The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition 

I have even heard talk of getting up a 'charivari' under the windows on the wedding-night. 
 The Idiot 

I hope you shivaree Man and his wife-andshivaree 'em good. 
 Lonesome Land 

Well, anyway, when Bill and the girl got married, the boys came to 'shivaree' them. 
 The Second Chance 

I came to tell you that there's a scheme to raise-to'shivaree' you two, tonight. 
 Lonesome Land 

But I understand just what this shivaree means. 
 The Ramrodders: A Novel 

It was like ordering a serenade of angels, and getting a shivaree in place of it. 
 Who is mark twain? 

Seton lives in Halifax and they NEVER chivaree people there. 
 The Golden Road 

It was more like the "chivaree" with which ironic crowds tormented bridal couples back in Nimrim, Mo. 
 We Can't Have Everything: A Novel 

But when they explained to me just how a chivaree was carried on, naturally I wanted in on the action. 
 The Life of Me: An Autobiography 

I was only about nine years old, and I can't remember much about that one and only chivaree I ever attended. 
 The Life of Me: An Autobiography 

"Well, it's the only chance we'll have to chivaree them," grumbled Dan. 
 The Golden Road 

Использование термина skimmington ride на английском

Up to this time he knew nothing of the skimmington -ride. 
 The Mayor of Casterbridge 

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