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Definition of Pittering
1. pitter [v] - See also: pitter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pittering
Literary usage of Pittering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Remains of the Late Dr. John Leyden,: With Memoirs of His Life, by John Leyden, James Morton (1819)
"The pittering grasshopper occurs in " Oberon's Diet," a poem quoted in Poole's
English Parnassus, 1677, p. 336. " A little mushroom table spread, ..."
2. The Poetical Remains of the Late Dr. John Leyden,: With Memoirs of His Life, by John Leyden, James Morton (1819)
"But all the while his eye was serv'd, We cannot think his ear was starv'd, But
that there was in place to stir His ears the pittering grasshopper. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Pit. The only word in common talk for a mine. So, a miner is always 'pitman'
or 'pittie,' and pit dress is 'pit-claes.' Pittering ..."
4. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1864)
"Herrick finely describes by the term pittering the peculiar shrill and short cry
of the grasshopper: the cry of the grasshopper, is pit! pit! pit! quickly ..."
5. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"... When bursting seed-bells crackle in the sun, And pittering grasshoppers,
confus'dhy shrill, Pipe giddily along time glowing hill: Sweet grasshopper, ..."
6. The Poetical Remains of the Late Dr. John Leyden,: With Memoirs of His Life, by John Leyden, James Morton (1819)
"The pittering grasshopper occurs in " Oberon's Diet," a poem quoted in Poole's
English Parnassus, 1677, p. 336. " A little mushroom table spread, ..."
7. The Poetical Remains of the Late Dr. John Leyden,: With Memoirs of His Life, by John Leyden, James Morton (1819)
"But all the while his eye was serv'd, We cannot think his ear was starv'd, But
that there was in place to stir His ears the pittering grasshopper. ..."
8. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Pit. The only word in common talk for a mine. So, a miner is always 'pitman'
or 'pittie,' and pit dress is 'pit-claes.' Pittering ..."
9. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1864)
"Herrick finely describes by the term pittering the peculiar shrill and short cry
of the grasshopper: the cry of the grasshopper, is pit! pit! pit! quickly ..."
10. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"... When bursting seed-bells crackle in the sun, And pittering grasshoppers,
confus'dhy shrill, Pipe giddily along time glowing hill: Sweet grasshopper, ..."
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