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en-verb)
* {{quote-book|year=1786|author=Boswell|title=Life Of Johnson, Volume 5|chapter=|edition= citation
|passage=It is a poor thing for a fellow to get drunk at night, and
sculk to bed, and let his friends have no sport.' }}
* {{quote-book|year=1915|author=Aphra Behn|title=The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III|chapter=|edition= citation
|passage=No, Sir, you had good Clothes when you came first, but they dwindled daily, till they dwindled to this old Campaign--with tan'd coloured Lining--once red--but now all Colours of the Rain-bow, a Cloke to
sculk in a Nights, and a pair of piss-burn'd shammy Breeches. }}
* {{quote-book|year=1910|author=Jonathan Swift|title=Poems (Volume II.)|chapter=|edition= citation
|passage=Let other nice lords
sculk at home from the wars, Prank'd up and adorn'd with garters and stars, Which but twinkle like those in a cold frosty night; While to yours you are adding such lustre and light, That if you proceed, I'm sure very soon 'Twill be brighter and larger than the sun or the moon: A blazing star, I foretell, 'twill prove to the Gaul, That portends of his empire the ruin and fall. }}
