"Sheal" Quotes from Famous Books
... are burnt off to the gristle, and he is thrown aside as unfit for further use. As the fool said of King Lear, when his daughters had turned him out-of-doors, "He's a shelled peascod." [That's a sheal'd peascod.] ... — Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 • John George Nicolay and John Hay |