Lexicographical Neighbors of Outswung
Literary usage of Outswung
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"A seaman was stationed, when discharging, to take in the slack on the fall from
the outswung boom; then he took a turn around a bollard while the winch ..."
2. Poems by Edna Dean Proctor (1890)
"... Just as morning's gate outswung Flushing all the Alps with rose ! How the
chorus jubilant Floated over lake and river ! Life was joy and earth was young ..."
3. The Silence of Amor [and] Where the Forest Murmurs by William Sharp (1910)
"... or, facing northward, she wanders where the hill-burn falls from ledge to
ledge, or leaps past the outswung roots of mountain-ash or birch, ..."
4. The Mountain Maid and Other Poems of New Hampshire by Edna Dean Proctor (1900)
"How the building thrushes sung In gardens where the Limmat flows, Just as morning's
gate outswung Flushing all the Alps with rose ! ..."
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