Lexicographical Neighbors of Bethumps
Literary usage of Bethumps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907)
"For Professor James bethumps the high priests, sacred and profane, of contemporary
philosophy, with a kind of holy joy. ..."
2. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"... his face puckered up like parchment, and his eyes somewhat tearful and running,
but he has the temper of an angel, and were it not that he bethumps and ..."
3. Goethe: A New Pantomime by Edward Vaughan Kenealy (1850)
"... She seizes the poor wretch, and so bethumps The shrieking booby, bent on
amorous suit, Instead of love he falls into the dumps; Meanwhile the third, ..."
4. Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical & Critical. Printed by Thomas Dolby, George Damiel, D. G., G. D., John Cumberland (1826)
"... the more he bethumps it with argument : be uses it, not according to its
deserts, but after his own honour and dignity— considering that, ..."
5. Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical by John Cumberland (1826)
"The greater the sophism, the more he bethumps It with argument: be uses it, not
according to its deserts, but after his own honour and dignity— considering ..."
6. America and the New World-state: A Plea for American Leadership in by Norman Angell (1915)
"... of the Revolution (the part written in the pre-Anglo- phile period), the
Senator bangs and bethumps the English in the familiar old ward-caucus style. ..."
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