Lexicographical Neighbors of Plimsol
Literary usage of Plimsol
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Australian Byways: The Narrative of a Sentimental Traveler by Norman Duncan (1915)
"... and a vast overflow of logs, stowed forward, that the plimsol mark was deep
underwater. In gray weather we stepped with care through the Grafton Passage ..."
2. Australian Byways: The Narrative of a Sentimental Traveler by Norman Duncan (1915)
"... and a vast overflow of logs, stowed forward, that the plimsol mark was deep
underwater. In gray weather we stepped with care through the Grafton Passage ..."
3. ... Report of Proceedings of the 1st- Annual Convention of the American by American Federation of Labor, American Federation of Labor. Convention (1889)
"I commend their cause to your earnest consideration, and trust that from our
action on this question will arise an American plimsol. ..."
4. Transactions of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers by Canadian Society of Civil Engineers (1891)
"With regard to the definition of a gassy mine it may be said no two mines are
alike, and the adoption of a " plimsol " mark is dimc'ilt. ..."
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