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Definition of Lambkins
1. lambkin [n] - See also: lambkin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lambkins
Literary usage of Lambkins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art-literature Readers by Eulalie Osgood Grover, Frances Elizabeth Chutter (1905)
"SHEEP PASTURE lambkins Auguste Bonheur On the grassy banks, lambkins at their
pranks; Woolly sisters, woolly brothers, Jumping off their feet; ..."
2. Reading-literature: Second Reader by Harriette Taylor Treadwell, Margaret Free (1912)
"The lambkins What can lambkins do, All the • keen night through ? Nestle by their
woolly mother, The careful ewe. What can nestlings do In the nightly dew? ..."
3. Nature Study in Elementary Schools, First Reader by Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson (1901)
"WHITE lambkins Who has the whitest lambkins? Look up into the sky. It is the
moon, the pretty moon, Whose home is up on high. She rises in the evening, ..."
4. American Annals of Education (1838)
"Oh gay are the lambkins when comes the sweet - - spring; And leads us through
life on a pathway of flowers; Gold, silver and jewels are gay are the ..."
5. Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"SPIDERS, SNAKES, EMMETS, BEES, lambkins, AND WEATHER'S BELL It is an article of
vulgar belief that it is unlucky to kill spiders. ..."
6. Poems Written on the Journey from Sense to Soul by Augusta Emma Stetson (1920)
"... from i>er lambkins Reply to the beautiful poem, written by Mary Baker G.
Eddy to the Sunday School Children of First Church of Christ, Scientist, ..."
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