Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalkpits
Literary usage of Chalkpits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1812)
"In old chalkpits in Suffolk nnd Norfolk; see E .hot 63, where it is lirst adopted
as a naturalized plant. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1864)
"... is accurately ascertained to be that portion of the Downs immediately above
the Offham chalkpits, where large quantities of skeletons have been at ..."
3. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1894)
"We've a country-house as well as the chalkpits ; and though they praise their
place for a little Paradise, ... I'm told the chalkpits drese their boy on a ..."
4. The Barons' War; Including the Battles of Lewes and Evesham by William Henry Blaauw, Charles Henry Pearson (1871)
"... under the command of Lord Nicholas de Segrave, is accurately ascertained to
be that portion of the Downs immediately above the Offham chalkpits, ..."
5. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1849)
"In dry gravelly, sandy or chalky corn-fields and other tillage lands, in waste
and garden ground, chalkpits, on old walls, cliffs and rubbish here and there ..."
6. The Barons' War: Including the Battles of Lewes and Evesham by William Henry Blaauw (1871)
"... under the command of Lord Nicholas de Segrave, is accurately ascertained to
be that portion of the Downs immediately above the Offham chalkpits, ..."
7. The Botanist's Guide Through England and Wales by Dawson Turner, Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1805)
"Marshes near the Thames below Plaistow. Id. CREPIS foetida. chalkpits at Purfleet.
... chalkpits at Purfleet: among bushes near South End, and elsewhere. ..."
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