Lexicographical Neighbors of Gorms
Literary usage of Gorms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal by Scottish Mountaineering Club (1903)
"The " gorms " in general chock full of snow and new-fallen white sprinkled down
to 3000 foot line. ... gorms just emerged from a week's thick drizzle. ..."
2. The cry of the children from the brickyards of England: a statement and by George Smith (1879)
"But besides carrying the above amount of clay 50 yards, they also do a great part
of the work of carrying the made bricks to the ' hacks' and ' gorms. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1873)
"... and yet M. Pasteur has ventured to assert that the gorms of Bacteria are not
destroyed in neutral or slightly alkaline fluids which have been merely ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"He was even at that moment wiping his brow, which extended well back to the crown,
innocent of hair.) "I am afraid," thought Mrs. gorms- leigh, ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"... full suit of tartan and cairn-gorms. the garb of old Gaul, which set off his
shapely limbe, "you at my feet, and stooping to my hand I " "My own IDALIA! ..."
6. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"... rei^n is of course mythical; some give him quite a short reign ; others make
two or three gorms. In short, we have hardly any.standing-ground in Danish ..."
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