As the boy goes upstairs with it two steps at a time Sally follows the old gentleman into a great saloon with standing desks to read Skewered journals on and is talking to him on the hearthrug.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
You see, Warner or Terriss on the Adelphi stage would have knocked all those fellows over like skittles, or Skewered them all upon one spear like a row of larks; but that's only done upon the boards; a fellow can't play like that in common life.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
From the stand of a street vendor drifted the odours of Skewered fowl-livers and black olives.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck