Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestains
Literary usage of Bestains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell: With Illustrations by James Russell Lowell (1891)
"Forgive me, my friends, ef I seem to be But a crisis like this must with vigor
be met; bet, Wen an Arnold the star-spangled banner bestains, Holl Fourth ..."
2. The Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus by Frederick York Powell, Saxo (1905)
"... for she entangles, lures, and bestains princes, rebuffing beyond all others
the lordly of birth; yet remaining firm to none, but ever wavering, ..."
3. Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern by Johnson, Reginald Brimley Johnson (1894)
"Nay, Tom, by the mass thou art but an ass, No seal bestains this foam; But the
long wave rolls up a Mermaid's glass And a young ..."
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