Lexicographical Neighbors of Squattered
Literary usage of Squattered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Folk-speech of South Cheshire by Thomas Darlington (1887)
"A man who had been to the Liverpool Exhibition of 1886 described some Laplanders
he saw there as "lyin' in a tent squattered abowt th' fire" ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1914)
"... Nod to the moon Aft yont the dyke she heard you bummin Wi' eerie drone Awa ye
squattered, like a drake, On whistling wings Holy Willie's Prayer, again, ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"A man who had been to the Liverpool Exhibition of 1886 described some Laplanders
he saw there as "lyin' in a tent squattered abowt th' fire" ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"... through staircases and corridors, dark, damp, and horrible, where for ages
the bloated epider had spun her web, and the swollen rat squattered in the ..."
5. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1916)
"... Amang the springs, Awa ye squattered * like a drake, On whistling wings.
1 unroofing. * frightful moan. * elder trees. ' slanting. * a bush of rushes. ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"Their homes were generally pitched amid gutters and dunghills ; and there the
young Dibbles squattered and gambolled and grew strong in defiance of typhus ..."
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