Lexicographical Neighbors of Flimsinesses
Literary usage of Flimsinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1841)
"She stands with her fingers in her mouth, mumbling over her eternal commonplaces,
her specious flimsinesses, about " the laws of trade," " regulating itself ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1841)
"She stands with her fingers in her mouth, mumbling over her eternal commonplaces,
her specious flimsinesses, about " the laws of trade," " regulating itself ..."
3. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1821)
"Therefore, every one of these witnesses, without any exception, is either dismissed
without a cause—for I say the causes are mere flimsinesses ..."
4. The Christian Examiner (1854)
"... gloomy tangles of Shelley, the dainty flimsinesses of Keats, the subtile
word-weavings of Coleridge, ..."
5. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1885)
"You cannot lose yourself in the love of man and yet ignore his faults, his
caprices, his flimsinesses, his weaknesses, his sins. ..."
6. Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments by Louise Imogen Guiney (1904)
"The tricks and flimsinesses of a bad argument provoked him as much as the imposture
and " flash" of insincere sentiment and fine talking; ..."
7. The Oxford Movement: Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by Richard William Church (1891)
"The tricks and flimsinesses of a bad argument provoked him as much as the imposture
and "flash" of insincere sentiment and fine talking; ..."
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