Lexicographical Neighbors of Barricos
Literary usage of Barricos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the by Richard Hakluyt (1904)
"... and Frenchman which were with mee the day before, and they brought our three
barricos full of fresh water : for which I rewarded them with some trifles. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1872)
"Our first supplies from these sources were obtained by sending up parties with
barricos, which, when filled, they brought all the way by hand ; but we soon ..."
3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"barricos an houre, besides 3. Pumps, acquitting 100 tuns of water every 4. houres.
PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES miraculously to have taken our height by, ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... Muscels and Crabs as before, North Sea. and filled our barricos with fresh
water, and in one of these places we found Savages, but they fled from us. ..."
5. A Voyage in the 'sunbeam' by Annie Brassey (1878)
"... which they threw overboard, but the * Small casks, used lor carrying water in
boats, frequently spelled barricos, evidently from the time of the old ..."
6. Selections from Early American Writers, 1607-1800 by William B. Cairns (1909)
"... we freed not twelve hundred barricos of water, the least whereof contained
six gallons, and some eight, besides three deepe Pumpes continually going, ..."
7. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"Now, William, I intend to take one of the seven-gallon barricos, and go down to
the well for water. I may succeed, and I may not, but attempt it I must; ..."
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