Lexicographical Neighbors of Bawdries
Literary usage of Bawdries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo by Edward Shepherd Creasy (1879)
"... with dissolved arms from their hands, as many down-right hew'd From off their
shoulders as they fought, their bawdries cut in twain : And thus the black ..."
2. Poems of the Dance by Edward Robert Dickson (1921)
"Fresh garlands too, the virgins' temples bawdries bound. Sometimes all wound
close in a ring, ..."
3. The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets: Never Before in Any Language Truly by Homer, George Chapman, William Cooke Taylor (1843)
"... hew'd From off their shoulders as they fought, their bawdries cut in twain :
And thus the black blood flow'd on earth, from soldiers hurt and slain. ..."
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