Lexicographical Neighbors of Donged
Literary usage of Donged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Certain Ancient Tracts Concerning the Management of Landed Property Reprinted by Xenophon, Anthony Fitzherbert (1767)
"... weare and warn with water, if it be nat donged. And if they lye unplowed they
wyl grow AiU of brome and feme, and if they wyl ..."
2. The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: Printed from Five by Thomas, James Augustus Henry Murray (1875)
"... and the reference to ite being " donged with dede men," leads one to infer
that the prediction was composed after, or or least on the eve of that battle ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"... areto take place before the war shall come to an end within twenty-one years.
From one vaticination, ' when bam bourne [Bannockburn] is donged Wyth ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"How it donged into my ear and shot into my brain as I hung on by that rock.
What are those priests chanting the burial-service for 1 There is no one in that ..."
5. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"... At five—folks kept early hours then—and the " last" Ding-donged, as it ever
was wont, at half-past. Still the master was absent—the cook came and said, ..."
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