Lexicographical Neighbors of Sooping
Literary usage of Sooping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bacon Is Shake-Speare by Edwin Durning-Lawrence (1910)
"Again we refer to our quotation on page 48. "Those glorious vagabonds sooping it
in their glaring Satten sutes." Is not this masquerading fellow an actor ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... sanctity, holiness (Godefroy). soop, to sweep; 'A sooping traine', ...
2 (Judicio); sooping it, sweeping alone; id., v. 1 (Studioso). ..."
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"England affords those glorious vagabonds That carried earst their fardels on
their backes, Coursers to ride on through the gazing streetes, sooping it in ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"... Is grac'd with a faire (end and sooping traine. ) —ANON, 1606, The Return from
Parnassus, ed. Murray, Act i, Se. 2, p. 85. Davies and Wither, by whose ..."
5. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"... charmes these looser times; Acute John Davis, I affect thy rymes, Thy plainer
verse, thy unaffected vaine( Is grac'd with a faire and a sooping traîne. ..."
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