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Definition of Acrawl
1. crawling [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acrawl
Literary usage of Acrawl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson by Francis Wayland (1853)
"I shall be glad when any of the little ones shall be able to conjure out a acrawl
to their grandmother and aunt. Pray for tbem, that they may be early ..."
2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1823)
"... let the speech be put down upon paper as we should read it, and it will ruu
thus : \Vhat are these letter« which Are acrawl'd along the inexorable wall ..."
3. The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic by William Evans Burton (1859)
"Physicians soon arrived, sage, ware, and tried, As e'er acrawl'd jargon in a
darken'd room ; With heedful glance the ..."
4. The Void of War: Letters from Three Fronts by Reginald John Farrer (1918)
"For the hillside is acrawl with traffic, and soon we were down into the May-June
scene of desolation — all the shoulders and flanks of the fell still crude, ..."
5. Down the Road: And Other Essays of Nature, Life, Literature, and Religion by William Valentine Kelley (1911)
"... fancies might alight and sit for a time, idly closing and opening their flowered
and filmy wings; while the muddy bottom of the puddle was all acrawl ..."
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