Lexicographical Neighbors of Plonging
Literary usage of Plonging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"... would be plonging, and that too at a great disadvantage, yet, as many shots
would light within the embrasures, the parapet would speedily be destroyed. ..."
2. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... and, plonging where the beech Shaddows the poole, she runs in dread affright;
In vain the deepest rocke her late delight, In vain the sedgy nook for' ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... and, plonging where the beech Shaddows the poole, she runs in dred affright ;
In vain the deepest rock, her late de'ight, In vain i he sedgy nook for ..."
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