Lexicographical Neighbors of Peghs
Literary usage of Peghs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the by John Sinclair (1795)
"Now although they ascribe some.of their ancient buildings, such as the high church
of Glasgow, to the Picts, or peghs, as they call them, yet it is matter ..."
2. The Archaeological Review by Gomme, George Laurence, Sir, 1853-1916 (1890)
"... explains that " the people always, when they speak of these peghs, associate
that idea with a notion that they were a preternatural sort of beings, ..."
3. Archaeological Review by Gomme, George Laurence, Sir, 1853-1916 (1890)
"... explains that " the people always, when they speak of these peghs, associate
that idea with a notion that they were a preternatural sort of beings, ..."
4. The Scottish Antiquary, Or, Northern Notes & Queries edited by Arthur Washington Cornelius Hallen, John Horne Stevenson (1899)
"Consequently, he was " no canny;" for, in the words of another writer, " the
people always, when they speak of these peghs [otherwise, ..."
5. The Irish Penny Journal (1841)
"So ruffled was I that at first, after a few score peghs and puffs restorative,
I bustled bravely on, desiring nothing so much as an opportunity of wreaking ..."
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