Lexicographical Neighbors of Brummagems
Literary usage of Brummagems
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Russell's Magazine by Paul Hamilton Payne (1860)
"Unfortunately for шу feet, but fortunately for my good fortune, these were a
horrible pair of horrid " brummagems" I had purchased in England, ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1868)
"Sometimes the coins are refused altogether, and pronounced to be " brummagems'*
or " duffers" by shopkeepers and others. Their existence is at once, ..."
3. The Life of John Henry, Cardinal Newman: Based on His Private Journals and by Wilfrid Philip Ward, ( (1912)
"And I suspect the Italians, as a whole, beat them—can boast more learned men than
any brummagems ever will be, and you will observe they stretch from St. ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1868)
"Sometimes the coins are refused altogether, and pronounced to be " brummagems'*
or " duffers" by shopkeepers and others. Their existence is at once, ..."
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