Lexicographical Neighbors of Pronging
Literary usage of Pronging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1848)
"... as the mountain is very steep, and then the little imps would be at him pronging
into his stern, which you see had no fenders to keep them off. ..."
2. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1876)
"From this I pronged off with five-inch tile, and then commenced pronging off ...
and then pronging with three-inch tile; and then into every low spot or ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... on errands sleeveless j -an listen to a tale humdrum, iml with attention read
Tom Thumb ; Hy spirits with my body pronging, iolh hand in ha)id together ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1863)
"He could not sleep because of a vision he had of the One-eyed pronging at him
with a spear, and the One-eyed could not sleep because of an imaginary cork ! ..."
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