Lexicographical Neighbors of Misquoters
Literary usage of Misquoters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1888)
"These are, first, the tattlers, fabricators, and misquoters who have jointly and
severally contributed to create and swell the Johnson legend; secondly, ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1804)
"Such a plan would ' unthread the joints, and crumble all the sinews' of those
misquoters, who, under pretence of restoring the established church to its ..."
3. The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt by Leigh Hunt (1862)
"Milton, it must be owned, might have accused his misquoters of attributing
tautology to him in adding fields to " pastures," though the one word does not of ..."
4. The Letters of Horace Walpole: Fourth Earl of Orford by Horace Walpole (1905)
"What if, as you do not approve of confuting misquoters, you simply printed a list
of their false quotations, referring to the identical sentences, ..."
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