Lexicographical Neighbors of Tigery
Literary usage of Tigery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1851)
"They called his name, in their Indian slang, Sir tigery Peppery Ourang Outang.
Well, once, it should seem, when you might have That runs nigh old Calcutta ..."
2. Aaron's Rod by David Herbert Lawrence (1922)
"It's a lily, not a rose: a pinky white lily with dark tigery marks. And heavy
too, in its own substance: earth-substance, risen from earth into the air: and ..."
3. Travels in the Air by Camille Flammarion, Wilfrid Fonvielle, Gaston Tissandier (1871)
"It is tigery, and we are passing out of the Seine-et-Oise into the department of
Seine-et-Marne. Corbeil recedes from us oil the right. ..."
4. Highways and Byways of New England: Including the States of Massachusetts by Clifton Johnson (1915)
"But he had a job, for a trout is a terribly tigery fellow. We had fish to eat
and to throw away, but I wouldn't touch them. I'd as soon have eaten my own ..."
5. Highways and Byways of New England: Including the States of Massachusetts by Clifton Johnson (1915)
"... for a trout is a terribly tigery fellow. We had fish to eat and to throw away,
but I wouldn't touch them. I'd as soon have eaten my own grandfather. ..."
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