She set Rhoda in her own chair; the turf-covered embers she broke into a blaze to be prodigal of warmth; there was skilly waiting hot; there was water.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
"He's a skilly man, Doctor MacLure," continued my friend Mrs. Macfadyen, whose judgment on sermons or anything else was seldom at fault; "an' a kind-hearted, though o' coorse he hes his faults like us a', an' he disna tribble the Kirk often.
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren
Same as you had before-bread and water, and skilly o' Sundays!
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann