Lexicographical Neighbors of Brownings
Literary usage of Brownings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great Folk of Old Marylebone by Margaret Baillie-Saunders (1904)
"If you told the story of the brownings in dates, it would still be a romance; as
the story of a famine is told in statistics and remains a tragedy, ..."
2. At Home and Abroad: A Sketch-book of Life, Scenery and Men by Bayard Taylor (1872)
"THE brownings. FEW of the thousands who now place the poems of Elizabeth Barrett
Browning in the niche devoted to their favorite authors, are aware that she ..."
3. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"... Machiavelli and Boccaccio — the brownings lived for several seasons on these
heights, above the Tuscan city and its summer heat, extending hospitality ..."
4. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"CHAPTER XIV THE brownings IRRITABLE men of letters like Landor and Carlyle found
to their relief that Browning 1 was unlike themselves, being in common ..."
5. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1855)
"This should be enough to distinguish the season, but we should be glad to hear
that the brownings had been stimulated into activity. ..."
6. Pen Pictures of Modern Authors by William Shepard Walsh (1882)
"THE brownings. Reminiscences of Miss Mitford and Miss Martineau—A day with the
brownings at Pratolino—Hawthorne's two meetings with the poet and his wife. ..."
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