Lexicographical Neighbors of Holesome
Literary usage of Holesome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Bibliographer by Joseph Haslewood, Sir Egerton Brydges (1812)
"... best and most suf- ferable, supposed to be of good nourishment and of lightest
concoction. Good and holesome ... Eeles are not holesome because they be ..."
2. A Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line by Leonard Mascall, Thomas Satchell (1884)
"The Flounder is also a holesome fish for sicke folkes, and he will be in fresh
... it is a holesome fish to eate if he be gauld. For when he shineth in the ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... Wonder holesome of sight and aire, Therein a lady, that passingly was faire,
Sitting as tho vnder a laurer tree, And in her armes a little child had she ..."
4. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society (1896)
"It is a place enriched by nature with corne, cattell, fruits, and holesome springs
of water in great abundance. The principall riuer of all Congo called ..."
5. Positions by Richard Mulcaster, Robert Hebert Quick (1888)
"To proue that it is holesome for the head, what more credible witnesses neede we,
... it is held to be verie holesome, to mend a feeble voice, ..."
6. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"It is a fruite reasonably holesome, and agrees with the stomack, being of a strong
digestion, and cold. The Paltas commonly are hote and delicate. ..."
7. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"It is a fruite reasonably holesome, and agrees with the stomack, being of a strong
digestion, and cold. The Paltas commonly are hote ..."
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