Lexicographical Neighbors of Errings
Literary usage of Errings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Suppers: novel suggestions for social occasions by Paul Pierce (1907)
"Profound silence, and much puffing of pipes. Presently a voice from the corner:— "I
say, Bill, did you say 'errings?" "Yes, I said 'errings. ..."
2. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1824)
"... and displaying the charms of virtue, it is able to secure an elevation to the
thoughts, and to correct the errings of the affections. ..."
3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... it may yet prove no small consolation to thy weariness to reflect that its
errings upon the subject are wellnigh ended. It was yet early in the day, ..."
4. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... has lingered tediously to thee along their fairy borders, it may yet prove no
small consolation to thy weariness to reflect that its errings upon the ..."
5. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by American Social Science Association, National Conference on Social Welfare, Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1891)
"... in every sense a philanthropic body, actuated with charity for the errings of
our fellow-man, to consider such a question ; and it is further the duty ..."
6. Original Narratives of Early American History by John Franklin Jameson (1910)
"... and will prevail, yet have they their errings as well as others, but yet their
imperfections may not blemish the truths of Christ; let them be glorified ..."
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