Lexicographical Neighbors of Swashings
Literary usage of Swashings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1905)
"For this one, an' it please ye, proved to be that of a cow-yard, and while 1
made- such mighty swashings and such furious ado in front, ..."
2. The Discoveries of America to the Year 1525 by Arthur James Weise (1884)
"... and swashings." These observations are remarkably consonant with those of a
later writer : " Long Island Sound, a Mediterranean Sea, separating the ..."
3. The Discoveries of America to the Year 1525 by Arthur James Weise (1884)
"... and it is full of isles which stretch out ten or twelve leagues in the sea [or
Sound], and it is very dangerous on account of rocks and swashings. ..."
4. History of the Pilgrims and Puritans: Their Ancestry and Descendants; Basis by Joseph Dillaway Sawyer (1922)
"These, though rock-rip- rapped, under downpours and boat swashings need prompt
attention to block otherwise sure landslides into the big water ditch. ..."
5. Studies in English: Or, Glimpses of the Inner Life of Our Language by Maximilian Schele de Vere (1867)
"... some reason or other was called Les Chats, is rapidly changing into The Shows ;
and a third, Les Joaquins, is altogether transformed into The swashings. ..."
6. The English Illustrated Magazine (1905)
"For this one, an' it please ye, proved to be that of a cow-yard, and while 1
made- such mighty swashings and such furious ado in front, ..."
7. The Discoveries of America to the Year 1525 by Arthur James Weise (1884)
"... and swashings." These observations are remarkably consonant with those of a
later writer : " Long Island Sound, a Mediterranean Sea, separating the ..."
8. The Discoveries of America to the Year 1525 by Arthur James Weise (1884)
"... and it is full of isles which stretch out ten or twelve leagues in the sea [or
Sound], and it is very dangerous on account of rocks and swashings. ..."
9. History of the Pilgrims and Puritans: Their Ancestry and Descendants; Basis by Joseph Dillaway Sawyer (1922)
"These, though rock-rip- rapped, under downpours and boat swashings need prompt
attention to block otherwise sure landslides into the big water ditch. ..."
10. Studies in English: Or, Glimpses of the Inner Life of Our Language by Maximilian Schele de Vere (1867)
"... some reason or other was called Les Chats, is rapidly changing into The Shows ;
and a third, Les Joaquins, is altogether transformed into The swashings. ..."
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