Lexicographical Neighbors of Bummels
Literary usage of Bummels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the by Washington Irving (1848)
"... and Van bummels, who had remained behind to digest the enormous dinner they
had eaten. These now trudged manfully forward, smoking their ..."
2. Works by Washington Irving (1893)
"... Van bummels, those valiant trenchermen of the Bronx, and spreading from man
to man, accompanied with certain mutinous looks and discontented murmurs. ..."
3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"... that stood by the head of Wall-street First of all came the Van bummels, who
inhabit the pleasant borders of the Bronx: these were short fat men, ..."
4. A History of New York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the by Washington Irving (1820)
"... as they defiled through the principal gate of the city, that stood by the head
of Wall-street. First of all came the Van bummels ..."
5. The Life and Career of Major John André, Adjutant-general of the British by Winthrop Sargent (1861)
"... corpulent Vau bummels, dwellers on the pleasant Bronx, says the learned Diedrich
Knickerbocker, "were the first inventors of ..."
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