Lexicographical Neighbors of Bethumbed
Literary usage of Bethumbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"But to be bored eternally about divine Dante and funny Gol- doni is too bad.
Your copy of Tasso, a treasure print of 1680, is all bethumbed and ..."
2. Contemporary Portraits by Frank Harris (1915)
"He will quote isolated lines of Homer and Dante and extol their beauty; but the
passages he selects are usually bethumbed passages, or moral aphorisms ..."
3. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1895)
"Its very popularity is now the cause of its scarcity, for it was bethumbed out
of existence. Besides the editions here mentioned, there was one at Brussels ..."
4. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1896)
"It proved when open to be a faded, blackened, and bethumbed document in Spanish.
"Here is the report of the Commander of the Presidio who sent out the ..."
5. Southern Literary Messenger (1849)
"Your copy of Tasso, a treasure print of 1680, is all bethumbed and dog's-eared,
and spotted with baby gruel. Even your Seneca—an Elzevir—is all sweaty with ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1831)
"... And when to hoarseness for the " Times" you've hummed, Brought you betimes,
all buttered and bethumbed, Now comes your bill, as custom has appointed; ..."
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