Lexicographical Neighbors of Acanths
Literary usage of Acanths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Footprints of the Creator: Or the Asterolepis of Stromness by Hugh Miller (1872)
"... as that of their contemporaries the acanths approximated to it most nearly :
they were, in this respect, the two extremes of their order ; and, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Annual Conference by Indiana Science Teachers' Association, American Society of University Composers (1906)
"acanths of various ages may be had from dealers, especially the Supply Department
of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1862)
"shaft and beautiful volute; there is an elegance combined with rich luxuriance
in the Corinthian, with its acanths capital,—which baffle all theory, ..."
4. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature by London International Fisheries Exhibition (1884)
"One other family of edible acanths demands notice ; that of the Lump-suckers.
Heavy unsightly animals, having bony tubercles imbedded in their thick skin, ..."
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