The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sheil \Sheil\ (sh[=e]l), Sheiling \Sheil"ing\, n. See Sheeling.
Wikipedia
Sheil is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Ainslie Sheil (born 1933), rugby union player who represented Australia
- Bernard James Sheil (1888–1969), Auxiliary Roman Catholic Bishop of Chicago
- Edward Sheil (1851–1915), Irish nationalist politician
- Ernie Sheil (1906–1970), Australian rules footballer
- Glen Sheil (1929–2008), Australian politician representing the National Party
- Sir John Sheil (born 1938), Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007
- Kate Lyn Sheil, American independent film actress
- Kate Sheil, Australian stage and television actress
- Laurence Sheil (1815–1872), Irish Franciscan friar, third Roman Catholic Bishop of Adelaide
- Martha Sheil, American operatic soprano
- Norman Sheil (born 1932), retired racing cyclist
- Richard Lalor Sheil (1791–1851), Irish politician, writer and orator
- Wally Sheil (1929–2002), American education administrator and politician from Jersey City, New Jersey
Usage examples of "sheil".
CHAPTER VII MARRIAGE Death of Prince Imperial--Justin Sheil, early friend of H.
If so, my other great friend, Justin Sheil, also passed into the shadow, or the glory, of religion.
As it chances, certain letters that Sheil, or Brother Basil, as he came to be called in religion, wrote to me have survived, although I dare say that others are lost.
It is clear, however, from the context, that I attempted to dissuade Sheil from the career which he had chosen in language that must have seemed to him almost impertinent.
It seems to me that, in the above letter, dear Sheil goes far towards justifying the attack that I had evidently made upon his position.
Thus ends the earthly story of my friend Justin Sheil, known in religion as Brother Basil, between whom and me, different as were our characters and our walks in life, there existed some curious affinity.
With these I have had no trouble, perhaps because from my boyhood my great friends have always been men much older than myself, if I except the instances of Sheil or Brother Basil, and that other friend who died, of whom I have already written.
The Shah, who had commissioned Colonel Sheil to engage an English gardener, was dead.
Terry Sheils devoted himself to thirty-five years of teaching drama and English at the high school level.
Both horse and rider were in a sober mood when they reached the sheiling, the horse from much stumbling in peat-bogs, and the man from reflections on his unworthiness.
I trembled and wondered if any spirit were standing near us in the light of the peat fire, or if the shriek of the wind over our sheiling were the cry of some unhappy soul in torment.
Isobel MacHardie, in whose service Macpherson was, deponed that one night in summer, June, 1750, while she lay at one end of the sheiling (a hill hut for shepherds or neatherds) and Macpherson lay at the other, "she saw something naked come in at the door, which frighted her so much that she drew the clothes over her head.