Lexicographical Neighbors of Grossnesses
Literary usage of Grossnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States: From the Days by Brander Matthews, Laurence Hutton (1886)
"... by Petronius Arbiter, Esq.,' formerly alluded to, is an impudent production,
written in an ill-natured style, and with a few grossnesses thrown in with ..."
2. Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1911)
"What is tedious in the original story, and unessential to the plot development,
is cut out in the interests of dramatic economy; needless grossnesses are ..."
3. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1892)
"At the same time it is i which in future years the author will doubtless be only
too ready to of certain unpardonable grossnesses of expression. ..."
4. Voltaire by John Morley (1872)
"They dig her grave on the stage; the gravediggers jest in a way worthy of them,
with skulls in their hands; Hamlet answers their odious grossnesses by ..."
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