Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweenies
Literary usage of Sweenies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild Sports of the West: With Legendary Tales, and Local Sketches by William Hamilton Maxwell (1843)
"My father accommodated matters with the sweenies, and my foster-brother was ...
A year passed, but the sweenies had not forgotten or forgiven the death of ..."
2. The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the English Invasion by Geoffrey Keating (1866)
"The Mac sweenies were standard-bearers and marshals to the O'Donnells. They were
famous throughout Ireland as leaders of those heavy-armed infantry soldiers ..."
3. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1845)
"was answered by a shout of " the sweenies for ever ! " With marvellous alacrity,
the kinsmen and acquaintances of both these respectable families responded ..."
4. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1845)
"was answered by a shout of " the sweenies for ever ! " With marvellous alacrity,
the kinsmen and acquaintances of both these respectable families responded ..."
5. Wild Sports of the West: With Legendary Tales, and Local Sketches by William Hamilton Maxwell (1843)
"My father accommodated matters with the sweenies, and my foster-brother was ...
A year passed, but the sweenies had not forgotten or forgiven the death of ..."
6. The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the English Invasion by Geoffrey Keating (1866)
"The Mac sweenies were standard-bearers and marshals to the O'Donnells. They were
famous throughout Ireland as leaders of those heavy-armed infantry soldiers ..."
7. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1845)
"was answered by a shout of " the sweenies for ever ! " With marvellous alacrity,
the kinsmen and acquaintances of both these respectable families responded ..."
8. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1845)
"was answered by a shout of " the sweenies for ever ! " With marvellous alacrity,
the kinsmen and acquaintances of both these respectable families responded ..."
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