Lexicographical Neighbors of Cruisies
Literary usage of Cruisies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scottish Antiquary, Or, Northern Notes & Queries edited by Arthur Washington Cornelius Hallen, John Horne Stevenson (1891)
"In the ' Musee Steen' at Antwerp are two brass cruisies, constructed on the same
principle as the Scottish specimens. They, however, are circular, ..."
2. The Scottish Antiquary, Or, Northern Notes & Queries edited by Arthur Washington Cornelius Hallen, John Horne Stevenson (1891)
"... and they are thus exhibited in front of the house of Hawkhead.' REPLI ES. XIX.
cruisies.—In the ‘Musée Steen' at Antwerp are two brass ..."
3. Northern Notes & Queries (1888)
"I have seen one or two cruisies made of brass, but the common material is thin iron.
A specimen in the possession of the Rev. John M'Lean, Grandtully, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"... that he had never seen so big a toun in al his life, with such a confabulation
of candles and cruisies that were a pleasantry to see. ..."
5. Ringan Gilhaize; Or, The Covenanters by John Galt (1823)
"Nevertheless the streets were not darkened, for there were then many begging-boxes,
with images of the saints, and cruisies burning afore them, ..."
6. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"Old Tinder Boxes ; Scotch Iron cruisies, etc., for exchange. — Edward Love», 41,
Outram Road, Croydon. ..."
7. The New Review edited by Archibald Grove, William Ernest Henley (1897)
"... shook with the dancing of the marriage people, and the cruisies blazed far
into the morning. Well on to bedding-time Seumas was cried to the door, ..."
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