Lexicographical Neighbors of Gruelled
Literary usage of Gruelled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
""That's the worst one I ever was on," said Lord Chil- tero ; " but I think he's
gruelled now." " Well ; — I fancy there is something amiss. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Wadham ran up by the side of that first Trinity yesterday, and he said that they
were as well gruelled as so many porters before they got to the stile. ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"[Slang, Eng.] Wadham ran up by the side of that first Trinity yesterday, and he
said that they were as well gruelled as so many posters before they got to ..."
4. Songs for the New Age by James Oppenheim (1914)
"... ye are gruelled in a war of the spirit, In a battle of nerves and blood-vessels
and the ghost- haunted brain, And the death of delight. ..."
5. Addresses and Proceedings by National Education Association of the United States, National Teachers' Association (U.S.)., American Normal School Association, Central College Association (1914)
"School frivolities, ignorance, laziness, stupidity in high places, slow-going
processes, and thinly gruelled textbooks have so entrenched themselves behind ..."
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