Lexicographical Neighbors of Blurtings
Literary usage of Blurtings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus, Thomas George Tucker (1908)
"In such wise make your prayers to heaven, not with a passion of groans, nor in
wild and frenzied blurtings ; they can help you nothing to escape from fate. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"My face feels easy : no more of those windy and rainy blurtings which confound
the senses of the traveller. The good man hath planted his garden with goodly ..."
3. Turns and Movies, and Other Tales in Verse by Conrad Aiken (1916)
"... he heard Through his first blurtings her caught breath, A sharp sound, broken,
as of death, And saw the anguished fingers tighten About her other hand, ..."
4. The Inspector, Literary Magazine and Review (1827)
"... might silence the offensive blurtings of mushroom Catholic demagogues, and
the demoniac yellings of Orange harpies over their cannibal prey, for ever. ..."
5. Humanities by Thomas Sinclair (1886)
"... the rustic blurtings out of words which are the natural correlatives of rude
life. It were better, at any rate braver, ..."
6. Tales of the Saxons by Emily Taylor (1832)
"The boar, in the heat of the chase, had been driven into this little thicket, or
copse; and though its harsh blurtings could be heard, the animal could not ..."
7. Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine (1848)
"As such members seldom speak in Grand Lodge, their blurtings, which scarcely
represent the human voice, might be spared in an assembly of Freemasons. ..."
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