Lexicographical Neighbors of Hovelling
Literary usage of Hovelling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Idylls of the Sea by Frank Thomas Bullen (1899)
"XXI 'Hovelling'1 WHAT particular law of etymology has been evoked to produce the
queer word standing at the head of this paper I am unable to imagine. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1868)
"In such scenes we see the men actually at their work in their efforts to save
life and property ; but the life-boat and hovelling work does not merely ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1774)
"... deep and a (hovelling, and others three ... and a (hovelling, for which they
are paid from forty ..."
4. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Palatine of Chester: With by Thomas Wedge, Great Britain Board of Agriculture (1794)
"... and lime, all mixed together with earth, and finds them to answer well, f Slam
he has not • The «hovelling« of road* are utcd only by a few individual*; ..."
5. Idylls of the Sea: And Other Marine Sketches by Frank Thomas Bullen (1904)
"In a minute or two the well-known shape of a hovelling lugger became visible,
under a double ... yelled our skipper ; " why, you adjective hovelling pirate, ..."
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