Crossword-Solution: SKEER 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

When she was deposited safely inside, and Mulrady had climbed to the box beside the driver, the latter remarked, curtly,-- "Ye gave me a right smart skeer, a minit ago, stranger." "Ez how?" "Well, about three years ago, I was comin' down this yer grade, at just this time, and sittin' right on that stone, in just your attitude, was a man about your build and years.

They say that at the station hotels, when the coach came in, the folks used to stand round with blankets to wrap up the passengers so ez not to skeer the wimen.

All dis time Brer Rabbit mighty nigh skeer'd outen his skin, en he fear'd fer ter move kaze de bucket might keel over en spill him out in de water.

Sho 'nuff, bimeby here come Brer B'ar down de road, en w'en he git ter de mud-hole, he say: "'Howdy, Brer Frog; is you seed Brer Rabbit go by yer?' "'He des gone by,' sez Brer Rabbit, en ole man B'ar tuck off down de road like a skeer'd mule, en Brer Rabbit, he come out en dry hisse'f in de sun, en go home ter his fambly same ez enny udder man.

Anyhow, there was such a big skeer that one of the Greaser gang, who thought he'd seen the ghost, being a Papist, to save his everlasting soul went to the priest and confessed.