Lexicographical Neighbors of Bittours
Literary usage of Bittours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1912)
"... sea-owls, and long-tongued bittours bred, And other birds their shady pinions
spread ; All fowls ..."
2. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"... two hundred cranes, two hundred kids, two thousand chickens, four thousand
pigeons, four thousand rabbits, two hundred and four bittours, [bitterns ..."
3. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"There are many white Herons and grey bittours, that feed in the Washes there,
and are called, Royall Birds. Other Fowles there are of the ..."
4. Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders, in England, Scotland, and by R. B. (1811)
"... 3000 geese, 2000 capons, 300 pigs, 100 peacocks, 200 cranes, 200 kids, 2000
chickens, 4000 pidgeons, 4000 rabbits, 204 bittours, 4000 ducks, 400 herons, ..."
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