Lexicographical Neighbors of Adonised
Literary usage of Adonised
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nollekens and His Times: Comprehending a Life of that Celebrated Sculptor by John Thomas Smith (1828)
"... Covent-garden, considered Cobb's tables so useful, that he easily prevailed
upon the adonised Upholsterer, to allow him to paint his portrait for one; ..."
2. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1854)
"At last, having adonised himself as well as he could (considering he had to stand
on his head part of the time), he resolved, not feeling particularly well ..."
3. Friendship's Offering, and Winter's Wreath.: And Winter's Wreath: a by Thomas Kibble Hervey, Leitch Ritchie (1829)
"Though, in reality, a sort of adonised spectre, he did not eem so bad as many
other persons of his years then bout the court — old grey drones, ..."
4. Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine by Douglas William Jerrold (1848)
"... under which grew a delicate moustache, bespoke him that most disagreeable of
modern anomalies, an adonised Jew, examined it with a puzzled air. ..."
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