Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoopings
Literary usage of Scoopings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1836)
"Among others, may be mentioned, the cylindrical perpendicular scoopings vvhich
are observable on the surface of isolated masses of rock in the bottoms of ..."
2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1836)
"Among others, may be mentioned, the cylindrical perpendicular scoopings which
are observable on the surface of isolated masses of rock in the bottoms of the ..."
3. The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood: A Second Appeal to Common Sense from by Henry Hoyle Howorth (1893)
"It also excavates the surface into shallow depressions, which he calls scoopings,
like those which would be produced on a soft body by the oblique blow of a ..."
4. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1893)
"The scoopings of the side grew black, and the patch of sky above more blue, as,
with many thoughts of Lorna, a long way underground I sank. ..."
5. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1893)
"... to dig and to live in their own scoopings. Yet even the worms come up sometimes,
after a good soft shower of rain, and hold discourse with one another; ..."
6. Annual Report by Rhode Island, Commissioners of Shell Fisheries (1911)
"... by depositing thereon earth, stones, or dredgings or scoopings from the river
or docks, or in any other manner, shall be fined not exceeding five hun- ..."
7. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"Many hundreds,—nay, thousands—of scoopings they make Before they've exhausted a
twopenny cake. With ices 'tis equally wrongful to haste; You ought to go ..."
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