Lexicographical Neighbors of Lambies
Literary usage of Lambies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Journal in Malayan Waters, Or, The Blockade of Quedah by Sherard Osborn (1861)
""I forgot it * lambies, or lambs, a nickname for the youngest seamen in a
man-of-war, generally the ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1822)
"... lambies at your bed-side. Think o' that, Sir Thomas — think o' that; and if
ye can then set yourself up against the laws o' God and na-. ture wi' your ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1897)
"... puir lambies, and the neist thing he'll— " " You'll put me daft with that
clacking tongue of yours," interposed the Doctor; " that will be the next ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1852)
"On echoing hills the lambies bleat» Where the heather-unties sing sae sweet ;
And the woodland glen and shady grove Now choral ring wi their lays o' love. ..."
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