Lexicographical Neighbors of Tanky
Literary usage of Tanky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier (1699)
"... Grande Captain Wright demanded the Prize as his due by vertue of his Com-
million : Captain tanky laid it was his due by the Law of Privateers. ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1839)
"tanky, massa, tanky ; but it is not for me to complain : only Dinah, my poor
woman, I tell her she will fry her eyes out. I have nothin' to do but to sit ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1839)
"1 must tell my sister to look into it.' ' tanky, massa, tanky ; but it is not
for me to complain : only Dinah, ..."
4. The Knickerbocker. by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1839)
"tanky, massa, tanky ; but it is not for me to complain : only Dinah, my poor
woman, I tell her she will fry her eyes out. I have nothin' to do but lo sit ..."
5. The Metropolitan (1835)
"tanky, Massa Percy, dear, tanky; you make me very happy; but, for true, no.
Were you older more fifteen year, or me more fifteen year younger, perhaps—but ..."
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