Lexicographical Neighbors of Pingling
Literary usage of Pingling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... being as I supposed in my sane mind, had taken refuge with two women, one the
dearest to me on earth. The blood ran pingling and pricking in my veins. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1890)
"I'm going," she said, " to take up—a situation." "I just thought that. 'Twill be
some pingling trade like showing or hearing weans their letters, ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"he said, " a pingling set aye wanting something! To spend your money on feeding
them and clothing them, that'snot enough it would appear ! ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"Then she took occasion to praise the family she was in : she invited her brother
to live in the same street near to her, seeing he had but a pingling ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
""They were all Borderers, and could ride and prick well, ana held the Scottish
men in pingling by their pricking and skirmishing, till the night came down ..."
6. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"The blood ran pingling and pricking in my veins. My heart-cords tightened as
though it had been shut in a box and the key turned. Hastily I slipped down, ..."
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