Lexicographical Neighbors of Smouses
Literary usage of Smouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1853)
"... that gets up in the morn ing and eats his breakfast, 'smouses' around all day,
and at night lays down like a dog. But, gentlemen, man is not a shark ! ..."
2. History of South Africa Under the Administration of the Dutch East India by George McCall Theal (1897)
"Travelling pedlars —commonly known as smouses or cheats—sometimes made their
appearance at distant farms, and were usually found at the church places at the ..."
3. A Life Time in South Africa: Being the Recollections of the First Premier of by John Robinson (1900)
"Its agents were locally known as "smouses." A smouse is, or rather was, for he
is known no more in those latitudes, a glorified pedlar. ..."
4. A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customes of by Samuel Morewood (1838)
"Great quantities of brandy are carried by means of waggons through the most remote
parts of the colony, and disposed of by persons denominated smouses. ..."
5. Travels in the Interior of South Africa: Comprising Fifteen Years' Hunting by James Chapman (1868)
"... called smouses, visit tin's country yearly to barter for slaughtered oxen and
sheep for the Cape Town market; but latterly, since the Sand Eiver Treaty, ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1853)
"... that gets up in the morn ing and eats his breakfast, 'smouses' around all day,
and at night lays down like a dog. But, gentlemen, man is not a shark ! ..."
7. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of by Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana (1887)
"The preparation of the land for rice necessitated the filling up of the old
drains, and the formation of little ridges or smouses, about 18 inches wide and ..."
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