Lexicographical Neighbors of Niffered
Literary usage of Niffered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Edward Christian (1807)
"... of the court, until such time as the tenant in tail might actually have niffered
a common recovery of the land; and in consequence a direction is added ..."
2. The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825)
"Tke emperors of Rome niffered themselves to be worshipped in their lives with
altars aid sacrifices; and in an age more enlightened, the terms peculiar to ..."
3. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1827)
"... committed a thousand crimes, and niffered under a mass of misery, merely
because they were resolved not to pe^it the existence of that crown, ..."
4. The Antiquary by Walter Scott (1878)
"... thousand—I carried it for mony a year, till I niffered it for this tin ane
wi' auld George Glen, the dammer and sinker, when he took a fancy till't doun ..."
5. The Percy Anecdotes by Sholto Percy (1839)
"The augurs pronounced that one of them must be killed, and the other allowed to
escape ; and that should the male be the one niffered to escape, ..."
Other Resources:
