Citations:skunkery

English citations of skunkery

• 2015, Gilbert Highet, Harold Bloom, The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature, Oxford University Press, USA (→ISBN), page 461:

  His chief complaint against the era of skunkery was its pettiness.

• 2021, Hermon Basil Laymon, Fur Farming for Profit, with Especial Reference to Skunk Raising, Good Press

  This is why it seems desirable to establish a skunkery close to or in a city. Even in the country the neighbors will help out. The farmers will be only too […]

• 2019, Tim Davenport, David Walters, The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs, Vol. I: Building Solidarity on the Tracks, 1877–1892, Haymarket Books (→ISBN)

  In Michigan, a skunkery promises such profits that within a generation an aristocratic family will be founded as notable as that of the Astors […]

• 1906, Hunter-trader-trapper, page 29:

  In fact, he will take pride in his calling , and will not “whimper” when asked about his skunkery. I knew a fellow who was ashamed to carry a basket of […]

• 1983, John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, Letters to Reyna, London : Buchan & Enright

  I felt that he had been murdered by the skunks in one of the skunkeries called ministries: & as I began to read for this, someone did a book on the theme […]

• 1902, Ernest Ingersoll, Wild Neighbors: Out-door Studies in the United States, page 245:

  […] in fact, large enclosures have been set apart for the breeding and rearing of these animals for profit, such places being known as skunkeries.

• 1919, Bernard Lyman Johnson, Farm Mechanics ...: Farm Machinery and Power Equipment, Farm Buildings--farm Management, page 86:

  As prices have begun to rise, "skunkeries," they are called, have been established here and there, and one may purchase his first pairs from these.