Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickeering
Literary usage of Pickeering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, to the Accession of Queen Anne by Garnet Wolseley Wolseley (1894)
"... of the Dutch Government—Great want of money to carry on the war — 'pickeering'
... pickeering ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... Prussian soldiership and Turkish being two quite different things! The pickeering
and manoeuvring of ..."
3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"And the rest of the Battle, or rather the Battle itself,—for all hitherto has
been pickeering and groping in the mist,—may be made conceivable in few words. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"... he teems with far-fetched assumptions, he struts in cleverness ; and he has
ransacked new dictionaries for old words such as ' pickeering,' ' dup,' ..."
5. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"And the rest of the Battle, or rather the Battle itself,—for all hitherto has
been pickeering and groping in the mist,— may be made conceivable in few words ..."
6. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"... Prussian soldiership and Turkish being two quite different things! The pickeering
and manoeuvering of ..."
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