Lexicographical Neighbors of Kirris
Literary usage of Kirris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Mankind by Friedrich Ratzel (1898)
"528 kirris, i. 354; ii. 271, 287, 428, 429 ; see also Clubs and " Knob- kerries
... 271, 470, 540; sec aha kirris and Clubs ..."
2. Travels in Southern Africa in the Years, 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806 by Hinrich Lichtenstein, Anne Plumptre (1812)
"... kirris, and shields. The lion is surrounded, and enclosed in a narrow circle.
They then tease him with their lances till he springs out from the bush, ..."
3. Across the Border: Or Pathan and Biloch by Edward Emmerson Oliver (1890)
"... themselves in fixed camping grounds called kirris, in the Dera Ismail district,
where their women, children, arms, and a certain portion of the:r cattle ..."
4. Census of India, 1901 by India Census Commissioner, Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1902)
"Their women and children are left in the '' kirris" or large temporary ...
kirris" always return to the same locations, and no section would think of ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The many epithets applied to Adonis illustrate the same fact —Kiris or kirris (in
Laconia), Memnon, Serach, ..."
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