Lexicographical Neighbors of Crusies
Literary usage of Crusies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Celtic and Scandinavian Antiquities of Shetland by Gilbert Goudie (1904)
"ment, that most other crusies known are of the same general type and dimensions,
... Usually the crusies were of thin iron, but an article of a higher ..."
2. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1822)
"The lamps in the streets here are lighted with gauze, and not with crusies, like
those that have lately been put up in your toun ; and it is brought in pips ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1897)
"Among these were four crusies of different shapes, one from Shetland, one from
Skye, one from Sutherland, and one from Caithness, reference being made to ..."
4. Museums Journal by Museums Association (1903)
"WA Green and R. May - Old rushlight holders, crusies, and a " witches' stone,"
used quite recently over the door of an Antrim farm. house, to keep witches ..."
5. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1892)
"Not only are prc-historic implements represented by numerous engravings, but
figures of powder horns, crusies, quaichs, mustard mills, toasting stones, ..."
6. The Bible and the Anglo-Saxon People by William Canton (1914)
"What times to remember were those moonlight nights I The hush of the hill, the
silvered rock and tree, the schoolroom lit with dim iron crusies, the strange ..."
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