Lexicographical Neighbors of Pothering
Literary usage of Pothering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks by Joseph Banks, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1896)
"... fish—Ship strikes on a coral rock—Critical position — pothering the ship—Steadiness
of the crew—The ship taken into the Endeavour River—Scurvy. ..."
2. History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"BOOK IIL Truly, I think the man who goes about pothering and up- roaring for
his " happiness," — pothering, and were it ballot- boxing, poem-making, ..."
3. The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose by Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford (1919)
"HAPPINESS AND LABOR THOMAS CARLYLE [Ibid., Book III, chapters iv and vi] Truly,
I think the man who goes about pothering and ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Truly, I think the man who goes about pothering and up- roaring for his "
happiness," — pothering, and were it ballot- boxing, poem-making, or in what way ..."
5. The New World: College Readings in English edited by Harold Lawton Bruce, Guy Montgomery (1920)
"Truly, I think the man who goes about pothering and up- roaring for his ...
pothering, and were it ballot- boxing, poem-making, or in what way soever ..."
6. The New World: College Readings in English: With an Introduction in Thinking by Harold Lawton Bruce, Guy Montgomery (1920)
"Truly, I think the man who goes about pothering and up- roaring for his "
happiness,"— pothering, and were it ballot- boxing, poem-making, or in what way ..."
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