Lexicographical Neighbors of Pantofles
Literary usage of Pantofles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal Authorship by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"Wearied out at last with his own asseverations, he paid the money, and departed,
cursing the very souls of the pantofles. Determined to get rid of these ..."
2. The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne by Laurence Sterne, Wilbur Lucius Cross, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1904)
"... had done his own work at the same time, by turning my uncle Toby's Virtue
thereupon into nothing but empty bottles, tripes, trunk-hose, and pantofles. ..."
3. The Companion by Leigh Hunt (1828)
"THE pantofles. (FROM THE ITALIAN or GOZZI.) RY A CORRESPONDENT. IN Bagdad lived
an old merchant, of the name of Abon Casem, who was famous for-his riches, ..."
4. The American School Readers by Kate Forrest Oswell, Charles Benajah Gilbert (1912)
"... were small to look at, if you 'pantofles, slippers. * Avarice, greed for money
3 Coffers, chests for treasure. ..."
5. The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship by Charles Gibbon (1888)
"Instead of the embroidered pantofles of the judge, they detected, in a corner,
only the phenomena left by Casein, which were too well known to leave a doubt ..."
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