Lexicographical Neighbors of Hastinesses
Literary usage of Hastinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1904)
"... and hastinesses that one can almost see the book in the making and it therefore
deserves an exhaustive study at the hands of those who are interested in ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1848)
"He did not carry a tobacco-pipe in his pocket, or get muddled at dinner, or spit
upon the floor, or participate in any other of the Hastinesses common to ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1813)
"Notwithstanding many similar occasional imperfections, hastinesses, and oversights,
which in a promiscuous composition cannot wholly be avoided, ..."
4. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1900) by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... his work would always abound in the most astonishing slips of memory, oversights
of fact, hastinesses of statement. There is probably no historian of ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1813)
"Notwithstanding many similar occasional imperfections, hastinesses, and oversights,
which in a promiscuous composition cannot wholly be avoided, ..."
6. At Home and Abroad: A Sketch-book of the Life, Scenery, and Men by Bayard Taylor (1860)
"In the meantime, however, he shakes from himself a full burthen of nonsensical
stupidities and disgusting Hastinesses"—and truly in such wise, ..."
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