Skunkery

In fact, he will take pride in his calling , and will not “whimper” when asked about his skunkery.

In Michigan, a skunkery promises such profits that within a generation an aristocratic family will be founded as notable as that of the Astors or the Vanderbilts.

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 […]

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 […]

a skunkery . Platforms, manifestoes, utopianisms, factional vendettas — all were trivial beside the sufferings in Flanders and on the seas, the lacerations inflicted both by the crook and the idealist.

Some Perry county Democrats believed the term skunk was a fitting description for the Republican Party, so they offered the noble Democratic citizens of Alabama versus the "skunkery” as a proper epithet for the 1870 elections.

"Treachery? You meant skunkery, didn't you? "

It is easy to be wise and cocksure 200 years after the events that I hesitate to write yet; I do not know enough, but I do know that skunks in power make him a scapegoat and murdered him for their own dirty skunkery and its results.