Lexicographical Neighbors of Brusting
Literary usage of Brusting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trve Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in by John Smith (1819)
"Powhatan and his Dutch-nn brusting with desire to haue the head of Captaine Smith,
f< if they could but kill him, they thought all was theirs, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1881)
"brusting-SATURDAY. The Saturday before Shrove-Tuesday, on which day there is
eaten frying-pan pudding, made of the same material as a pancake, ..."
3. The philology of the English tongue by John Earle (1880)
"The wisard could no longer beare her bord, But, brusting forth in laughter, to
her sayd: ' Glauce, what needes this colourable word To cloke the cause that ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"Nor/A. brusting-SATURDAY. The Saturday before Shrove-Tuesday, on which day there
is eaten frying-pan pudding, made of the same material as a pancake, ..."
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