Lexicographical Neighbors of Spenses
Literary usage of Spenses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and by John Burke (1838)
"The spenses of Bodham, in Aberdeen- lure, which still exist, have been free --irons
ever since the time of JAMES III. and •''»r»l other spenses in the same ..."
2. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain by Sir Bernard Burke (1863)
"The spenses of ... and several other Spouses in the same со. ; also the spenses
of Berry- hole, in Fife, &c., «fee., arc all descended of ..."
3. The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club by Old Edinburgh Club (1908)
"... the village of Standing Stone and Kirk- hill there is ' an old cross which,
as we have by credible tradition, was erected of old by the spenses,' where ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"I wot not whether his revenging steele Was hardened with that holy-water dew
Wherein he fell. ' '—SPENSEs, Faery ..."
5. Southey by Edward Dowden (1880)
"... than anything else; biography and history were also within his reach; with
English poetry, from spenses onwards, his acquaintance was wide and minute, ..."
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