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Definition of Tossed
1. toss [v] - See also: toss
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tossed
Literary usage of Tossed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"... Vincent Voiture On Being tossed in a Blanket MADEMOISELLE, I was tossed in a
blanket on Friday, after having dined, because I did not succeed in making ..."
2. Shirley: A Tale by Charlotte Brontë (1850)
"The broad white road unrolled before the long procession, the sun and sky surveyed
it cloudless, the wind tossed the tree-boughs above it, and the twelve ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Thus if a coin be tossed 10 times, one .finds the probabilities of the appearances
of exactly four, five and six heads to be ^o'sVt -ffiff, ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... к For long and far the unwonted sound, Eddying in echoes round and round, Was
tossed from fell to fell; And Glaramara answer flung, And Grisdale-pike ..."
5. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"Millions of grass blades that tossed like an emerald sea in the sunshine. — OSCAR
FAY ADAMS. tossed like a peanut at sea. — IBID. tossed like a feather in a ..."
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